Carleton, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,610 ft 490 m1,600 ft 485 m1,590 ft 485 m1,570 ft 480 m1,550 ft 475 m1,540 ft 470 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Carleton 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: 1,560–1,590 ft
Lowest
1,540 ft 470 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,610 ft 490 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,570 ft 480 m
all land inside village limits
Carleton spans about 70 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 | 1,580 ft480 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northwest side | 1,610 ft490 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southeast side | 1,540 ft470 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Carleton | 1,560 ft475 m |
| Average of all land | 1,570 ft480 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Thayer County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 93 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 117 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3006° N, 97.6787° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Big Sandy Creek → Little Blue River → Big Blue River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 68326
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ong1,680 ft
- Davenport1,660 ft
- Shickley1,650 ft
- Strang1,620 ft
- Hamilton Township1,620 ft
- Belle Prairie Township1,600 ft
- Bruning1,580 ft
- Carleton1,580 ft
- Deshler1,580 ft
- Belvidere1,520 ft
- Hebron1,470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska515th highest of 912
- Towns in Thayer County5th 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.