Elevation of Topeka, Kansas, United States of America

Topeka, Kansas, United States of America is 289 m (948 ft) above sea level.

Topeka's height from sea level is 289 metres, or 948 feet. GeoNames reads 306 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 288 m.

Ground within 5 km

269 m – 312 m

Mean 284 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 43 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 11

among the towns of Kansas, and 201st of 1,000 in United States of America.

Cross-section through Topeka

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Topeka; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 330 m at 13 km west to 278 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 329 m at 13 km north to 322 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Topeka, 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.

Peaks and passes near Topeka

Burnett Mound, peak at 346 m (1,135 ft), 6.6 km to the SW — 57 m above the town.
Coon Point, peak at 337 m (1,106 ft), 23.4 km to the E — 48 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Topeka is

Latitude 39.0558235, longitude -95.6890185. 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 Topeka'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 306 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.