Cherokee, OK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,200 ft 365 m1,200 ft 365 m1,190 ft 365 m1,180 ft 360 m1,170 ft 360 m1,170 ft 355 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Cherokee sits at about 1,180 ft (360 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,180 ft 360 m
nearly all residents at this height
Lowest
1,170 ft 355 m
on the east side
Highest
1,200 ft 365 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,180 ft 360 m
all land inside city limits
Cherokee spans about 30 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 | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cherokee | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Airport (4O5) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.4 mi north of the city limits | 1,179 ft359 m |
| Average of all land | 1,180 ft360 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, United States
- Population
- 1,453 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.0 sq mi
- Density
- 712 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.7545° N, 98.3567° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Salt Fork Arkansas River → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Cherokee Municipal (4O5) 1,179 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 73728
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Helena1,410 ft
- Alva1,380 ft
- Dacoma1,360 ft
- Carmen1,350 ft
- Lambert1,280 ft
- Jet1,240 ft
- Burlington1,220 ft
- Amorita1,210 ft
- Byron1,190 ft
- Cherokee1,180 ft
- Nescatunga1,140 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oklahoma205th highest of 838
- Towns in Alfalfa County10th highest of 11
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, 1,160 ft at 36.7676° N, 98.3538° 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. All public domain.