Blackbird Township, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,440 ft 440 m1,340 ft 410 m1,290 ft 395 m1,190 ft 365 m1,090 ft 335 m1,040 ft 320 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Blackbird Township sits at about 1,180 ft (360 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,180 ft 360 m
most residents: 1,100–1,260 ft
Lowest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the east side
Highest
1,440 ft 440 m
on the north side
Average
1,180 ft 360 m
all land inside township boundaries
Blackbird Township spans about 390 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 | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,440 ft440 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Average of all land | 1,180 ft360 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Blackbird Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Thurston County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 1,253 2024 est.
- Land area
- 26.3 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 48 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.1155° N, 96.3619° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Dawes Township1,360 ft
- Rosalie1,360 ft
- Omaha Township1,260 ft
- Anderson Township1,250 ft
- Walthill1,240 ft
- Winnebago Township1,220 ft
- Winnebago1,190 ft
- Macy1,180 ft
- Blackbird Township1,180 ft
- Sloan, IA1,070 ft
- Decatur1,070 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska825th highest of 912
- Towns in Thurston Countylowest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blackbird Hill1,403 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.