Kay County, OK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,310 ft 400 m1,210 ft 370 m1,150 ft 350 m1,050 ft 320 m940 ft 285 m890 ft 270 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Kay County averages about 1,070 ft (325 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 890 ft on the south side to 1,310 ft on the northeast side.
Average elevation
1,070 ft 325 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,310 ft 400 m
on the northeast side
Lowest
890 ft 270 m
on the south side
Kay County spans about 420 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 890 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
28 mi south to north through Ponca City.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Oklahoma, United States
- Population
- 43,437 2024 est.
- Land area
- 919.6 sq mi + 25.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 47 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Cowley County, KS1,260 ft
- Sumner County, KS1,230 ft
- Garfield County1,160 ft
- Grant County1,120 ft
- Kay County1,070 ft
- Noble County1,000 ft
- Osage County940 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Oklahoma33rd highest of 77
- Counties in the United States1,290th highest of 3,151
All 11 towns in Kay County by typical elevation
- Newkirk1,140 ft
- Kildare1,110 ft
- Peckham1,110 ft
- Kaw City1,100 ft
- Nardin1,080 ft
- Braman1,050 ft
- Blackwell1,020 ft
- Ponca City1,010 ft
- Tonkawa990 ft
- Tonkawa Tribal Housing980 ft
- White Eagle950 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.