Elevation of Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America is 263 m (863 ft) above sea level.
Lawrence's height from sea level is 263 metres, or 863 feet. GeoNames reads 267 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 264 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 266 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 68 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of Kansas, and 240th of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through Lawrence
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Lawrence; the vertical scale is the same on both.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.
Towns near Lawrence
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olathe | 37.4 km | E | 319 m (1,047 ft) | +56 m |
Peaks and passes near Lawrence
- Coon Point, peak at 337 m (1,106 ft), 16.9 km to the W — 74 m above the town.
- Blue Mound, peak at 322 m (1,056 ft), 8.8 km to the SE — 59 m above the town.
- Nolan Hill, peak at 316 m (1,037 ft), 16.3 km to the N — 53 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Lawrence is
Latitude 38.9716689, longitude -95.2352501. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.
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About this reading
The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Lawrence's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 267 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.