Central Township, Merrick County, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,680 ft 515 m1,670 ft 510 m1,660 ft 505 m1,650 ft 505 m1,640 ft 500 m1,630 ft 500 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, Merrick County sits at about 1,660 ft (505 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,660 ft 505 m
most residents: 1,640–1,670 ft
Lowest
1,630 ft 500 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,680 ft 515 m
on the south side
Average
1,650 ft 505 m
all land inside township boundaries
Central Township, Merrick County spans about 50 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 | 1,660 ft505 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,680 ft515 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,630 ft500 m |
| Airport (07K) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.6 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 1,717 ft523 m |
| Average of all land | 1,650 ft505 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Merrick County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 63 2024 est.
- Land area
- 15.7 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 4.0 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.1720° N, 97.9175° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Platte River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Central City Muni/larry Reineke Field (07K) 1,717 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hordville1,780 ft
- Polk1,740 ft
- Midland Township, Merrick County1,730 ft
- Overland1,700 ft
- Lone Tree Township1,700 ft
- Central City1,700 ft
- Prairie Island Township1,690 ft
- Mead Township1,690 ft
- Central Township, Merrick County1,660 ft
- Clarks1,620 ft
- Clarksville Township1,620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska444th highest of 912
- Towns in Merrick County13th highest of 17
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).
- 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.