Custer County, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,140 ft 955 m2,890 ft 880 m2,770 ft 845 m2,520 ft 770 m2,280 ft 695 m2,150 ft 655 m
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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
Custer County averages about 2,610 ft (795 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,150 ft on the southeast side to 3,140 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
2,610 ft 795 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,140 ft 955 m
on the west side
Lowest
2,150 ft 655 m
on the southeast side
Custer County spans about 990 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 | 2,610 ft795 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 3,140 ft955 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 2,150 ft655 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
54 mi west to east through Broken Bow.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 10,487 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2,575.5 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 4.1 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
- Lincoln County2,980 ft
- Logan County2,980 ft
- Blaine County2,640 ft
- Custer County2,610 ft
- Dawson County2,530 ft
- Loup County2,420 ft
- Garfield County2,280 ft
- Valley County2,200 ft
- Buffalo County2,190 ft
- Sherman County2,160 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Nebraska28th highest of 93
- Counties in the United States461st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Judkins Table3,120 ft
- Schukar Table3,060 ft
- Tallin Table3,020 ft
- Stop Table3,020 ft
- Rock Island Table3,010 ft
All 42 towns in Custer County by typical elevation
- Elim Township2,960 ft
- Cliff Township2,930 ft
- Wayne Township2,810 ft
- Grant Township, Custer County2,800 ft
- Hayes Township2,790 ft
- Arnold Township2,720 ft
- Ryno Township2,720 ft
- Arnold2,720 ft
- Triumph Township2,720 ft
- Kilfoil Township2,660 ft
- Merna2,660 ft
- Victoria Township2,610 ft
- Anselmo2,600 ft
- Custer Township2,570 ft
- Oconto2,570 ft
- East Custer Township2,560 ft
- Garfield Township, Custer County2,550 ft
- Delight Township2,550 ft
- Callaway2,550 ft
- Lillian Township2,530 ft
- Broken Bow Township2,530 ft
- Broken Bow2,490 ft
- Milburn Township2,480 ft
- Corner Township2,420 ft
- Loup Township, Custer County2,420 ft
- Douglas Grove Township2,410 ft
- West Union Township2,410 ft
- Berwyn Township2,410 ft
- Elk Creek Township2,380 ft
- Berwyn2,380 ft
- Westerville Township2,370 ft
- Spring Creek Township2,360 ft
- Myrtle Township2,330 ft
- Westerville2,330 ft
- Sargent Township2,320 ft
- Sargent2,320 ft
- Ansley Township2,310 ft
- Ansley2,310 ft
- Algernon Township2,280 ft
- Mason City2,270 ft
- Comstock Township2,260 ft
- Comstock2,250 ft
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 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, 2,150 ft at 41.1807° N, 99.2065° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.