Amherst, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,310 ft 705 m2,280 ft 695 m2,270 ft 690 m2,250 ft 685 m2,230 ft 680 m2,210 ft 675 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Amherst sits at about 2,240 ft (680 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,240 ft 680 m
most residents: 2,230–2,250 ft
Lowest
2,210 ft 675 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,310 ft 705 m
on the northeast side
Average
2,240 ft 685 m
all land inside village limits
Amherst spans about 100 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 2,240 ft680 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northeast side | 2,310 ft705 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 2,210 ft675 m |
| Average of all land | 2,240 ft685 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.5 mi west to east through the middle of Amherst.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Buffalo County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 203 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 931 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8388° N, 99.2695° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Wood River → Platte River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 68812
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Elk Creek Township2,380 ft
- Sumner2,370 ft
- Miller2,320 ft
- Overton2,320 ft
- Elm Creek2,270 ft
- Amherst2,240 ft
- Odessa2,220 ft
- Riverdale2,180 ft
- Kearney2,160 ft
- Glenwood2,150 ft
- Pleasanton2,090 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska180th highest of 912
- Towns in Buffalo County3rd highest of 12
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census village limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) 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).
- 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 (FAA airport elevation, 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 (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.