Bruning, NE Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,610 ft 490 m1,600 ft 490 m1,600 ft 485 m1,590 ft 485 m1,580 ft 480 m1,580 ft 480 m

Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Bruning sits at about 1,580 ft (480 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,580 ft 480 m

most residents: 1,580–1,590 ft

Lowest

1,580 ft 480 m

on the southwest side

Highest

1,590 ft 485 m

on the southwest side

Average

1,580 ft 485 m

all land inside village limits

Bruning is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 10 ft, so the figures below sit close together.

Figure	Elevation
Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower	1,580 ft480 m
Highest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side	1,590 ft485 m
Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side	1,580 ft480 m
Town center USGS map point for Bruning	1,590 ft485 m
Average of all land	1,580 ft485 m

Topographic Map

Location: Village in Thayer County, Nebraska, United States
Population: 281 2024 est.
Land area: 0.3 sq mi
Density: 824 per sq mi
Coordinates: 40.3361° N, 97.5659° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Great Plains
Drains to: Little Blue River → Big Blue River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 68322

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Shickley1,650 ft
Chelsea Township1,630 ft
Strang1,620 ft
Hamilton Township1,620 ft
Belle Prairie Township1,600 ft
Ohiowa1,590 ft
Franklin Township, Fillmore County1,590 ft
Bruning1,580 ft
Carleton1,580 ft
Belvidere1,520 ft
Alexandria1,420 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Nebraska510th highest of 912
Towns in Thayer County4th highest of 11

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.