Brown County, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,950 ft 900 m2,700 ft 825 m2,580 ft 785 m2,330 ft 710 m2,070 ft 630 m1,950 ft 595 m
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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
Brown County averages about 2,580 ft (790 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,950 ft on the northeast side to 2,950 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
2,580 ft 790 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,950 ft 900 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
1,950 ft 595 m
on the northeast side
Brown County spans about 1,000 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 | 2,580 ft790 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 2,950 ft900 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 1,950 ft595 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
47 mi south to north through Ainsworth.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 2,877 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,221.4 sq mi + 3.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 2.4 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 96%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Cherry County3,190 ft
- Blaine County2,640 ft
- Brown County2,580 ft
- Loup County2,420 ft
- Rock County2,380 ft
- Keya Paha County2,270 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Nebraska29th highest of 93
- Counties in the United States469th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- White Cap Hill2,880 ft
- Antelope Peak2,590 ft
- Ainsworth Table2,510 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.
- 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.