Box Butte County, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,630 ft 1,410 m4,420 ft 1,345 m4,320 ft 1,315 m4,110 ft 1,250 m3,900 ft 1,190 m3,790 ft 1,155 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Box Butte County averages about 4,170 ft (1,270 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,790 ft on the northeast side to 4,630 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
4,170 ft 1,270 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,630 ft 1,410 m
on the west side
Lowest
3,790 ft 1,155 m
on the northeast side
Box Butte County spans about 840 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 4,170 ft1,270 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 4,630 ft1,410 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 3,790 ft1,155 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
36 mi west to east through Alliance.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 10,703 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,075.2 sq mi + 2.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 10.0 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Sioux County4,440 ft
- Box Butte County4,170 ft
- Scotts Bluff County4,140 ft
- Morrill County4,000 ft
- Dawes County3,820 ft
- Sheridan County3,820 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Nebraska5th highest of 93
- Counties in the United States246th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Wild Horse Butte4,040 ft
- Box Butte, Box Butte County3,990 ft
All 3 towns in Box Butte County by typical elevation
- Hemingford4,260 ft
- Berea4,140 ft
- Alliance3,970 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 3,790 ft at 42.4390° N, 102.7660° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.