Central Township, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,810 ft 550 m1,720 ft 525 m1,680 ft 510 m1,590 ft 485 m1,510 ft 460 m1,470 ft 445 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Central Township sits at about 1,670 ft (510 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,670 ft 510 m
most residents: 1,600–1,750 ft
Lowest
1,470 ft 445 m
on the west side
Highest
1,810 ft 550 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,650 ft 505 m
all land inside township boundaries
Central Township spans about 340 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 | 1,670 ft510 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,810 ft550 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,470 ft445 m |
| Airport (6K3) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.4 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 1,653 ft504 m |
| Average of all land | 1,650 ft505 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Central Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Knox County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 81 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.9 sq mi
- Density
- 2.3 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.5714° N, 97.7890° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Creighton Municipal (6K3) 1,653 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cleveland Township, Knox County1,760 ft
- Columbia Township1,750 ft
- Morton Township1,730 ft
- Bloomfield1,710 ft
- Central Township1,670 ft
- Harrison Township1,650 ft
- Creighton Township1,630 ft
- Bazile Mills1,580 ft
- Spade Township1,490 ft
- Valley Township1,430 ft
- Center1,400 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska433rd highest of 912
- Towns in Knox County12th highest of 42
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Council Hill1,860 ft
- Maidens Leap1,510 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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, 1,460 ft at 42.5593° N, 97.8363° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.