Lake Lotawana, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,070 ft 325 m1,010 ft 310 m980 ft 300 m920 ft 280 m860 ft 265 m830 ft 255 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lake Lotawana sits at about 920 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
920 ft 280 m
most residents: 890–1,040 ft
Lowest
830 ft 255 m
near the middle
Highest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the southwest side
Average
980 ft 300 m
all land inside city limits
Lake Lotawana spans about 240 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 920 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 830 ft255 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lake Lotawana | 900 ft275 m |
| Airport (3GV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.2 mi north of the city limits | 835 ft255 m |
| Average of all land | 980 ft300 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Jackson County, Missouri, United States
- Population
- 2,648 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.3 sq mi + 1.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 257 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.9231° N, 94.2441° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Bar Creek → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- East Kansas City (3GV) 835 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 64034 64086
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lone Jack1,010 ft
- Greenwood980 ft
- Lee's Summit980 ft
- Unity Village960 ft
- Lake Winnebago950 ft
- Blue Springs940 ft
- Lake Lotawana920 ft
- Tarsney Lakes890 ft
- Lake Tapawingo850 ft
- Oak Grove840 ft
- Grain Valley830 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Missouri437th highest of 1,352
- Towns in Jackson County9th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bowler Hill1,086 ft
- Rattlesnake Hill, Jackson County1,000 ft
- Schindorff Hill980 ft
- Minter Hill970 ft
- Monkey Mountain950 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 830 ft at 38.9335° N, 94.2438° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.