Buffalo County, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,520 ft 770 m2,370 ft 720 m2,290 ft 700 m2,140 ft 650 m1,990 ft 605 m1,910 ft 585 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
Buffalo County averages about 2,190 ft (665 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,910 ft on the northeast side to 2,520 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
2,190 ft 665 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,520 ft 765 m
on the west side
Lowest
1,910 ft 585 m
on the northeast side
Buffalo County spans about 610 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 | 2,190 ft665 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 2,520 ft765 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 1,910 ft585 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
36 mi west to east through Kearney.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 51,156 2024 est.
- Land area
- 968.2 sq mi + 7.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 53 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- 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
- Custer County2,610 ft
- Dawson County2,530 ft
- Phelps County2,330 ft
- Buffalo County2,190 ft
- Sherman County2,160 ft
- Kearney County2,140 ft
- Adams County1,950 ft
- Hall County1,930 ft
- Howard County1,920 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Nebraska40th highest of 93
- Counties in the United States561st highest of 3,151
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.