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Kansas Physical Map

Kansas is famously flat — but its tilt from west (high plains, ~4,000 ft) to east (Mississippi lowlands) is over 3,000 feet.

Rendered from SRTM 30m elevation data + Natural Earth rivers/lakes + US Census state boundary. Four versions below, all free.

Highest Point

Mt. Sunflower

4,041 ft

Lowest Point

Verdigris River

679 ft

Kansas physical map showing the Flint Hills, the High Plains, and the Smoky Hills, with major peaks and cities labeled. Topographic relief from NASA SRTM elevation data.

Choose your version

Two maps, two versions of each.

The same Kansas terrain as a classroom map and as wall art. All four are free PDFs.

Kansas physical map, labeled: the Flint Hills, the High Plains, and the Smoky Hills, with the capital, cities and highest point marked
Labeled
Kansas blank physical map: the same terrain with no labels, for labeling practice
Blank
Physical map

Kansas physical map for the classroom

Elevation in color with shaded relief, plus the surrounding states and water for context. The labeled version marks the capital, major cities and the highest point. The blank version leaves them off so students can label the map themselves.

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Kansas relief wall art on a dark background
Dark
Kansas relief wall art on a light background
Light
Wall art

Kansas relief wall art

Kansas on its own, with strong shaded relief and no labels. The dark version has the most contrast. The light version uses far less ink on a home printer.

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The physical geography of Kansas

Kansas rises steadily from east to west, gaining more than 3,000 feet. The west is High Plains, and Mt. Sunflower, the highest point, is a low rise near the Colorado border. The Smoky Hills cross the north-central part of the state. The Flint Hills run north to south through the east and hold the largest remaining stretch of tallgrass prairie. The northeast corner was reached by glaciers and is rolling farmland along the Missouri River.

Major rivers

  • Kansas
  • Arkansas
  • Missouri
  • Smoky Hill
  • Republican
  • Neosho

Find it on the map

  • The steady rise in elevation from east to west
  • The Arkansas River bending across the southern half
  • The Flint Hills as a band of rougher ground in the east
verified

Built from real data, not stock images.

Every Kansas physical map on this page was rendered from NASA SRTM 30-meter elevation data, with hydrography from Natural Earth and the shoreline-clipped state outline from the US Census Bureau. Each map is colored over that state’s own elevation range, and the relief shading is exaggerated so gentle terrain still shows.

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Kansas political map

The blank outline version of Kansas (state borders, no terrain). Useful for political-geography exercises.

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