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

249 m – 317 m

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

11th of 11

among the towns of Kansas, and 240th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

37.4 km to the E, at 319 m, 56 m higher.

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.

336241WE25.6 km
West to east: from 329 m at 13 km west to 250 m at 13 km east.
336241NS25.6 km
North to south: from 312 m at 13 km north to 303 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around Lawrence, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 54 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

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

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Olathe 37.4 kmE 319 m (1,047 ft) +56 m

Peaks and passes near Lawrence

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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Lawrence elevation: 263 m (863 ft) above sea level

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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.