Dakota City, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,120 ft 340 m1,110 ft 340 m1,100 ft 335 m1,100 ft 335 m1,090 ft 330 m1,080 ft 330 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
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- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
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- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Dakota City sits at about 1,100 ft (335 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,100 ft 335 m
most residents: 1,090–1,100 ft
Lowest
1,080 ft 330 m
on the south side
Highest
1,100 ft 335 m
on the north side
Average
1,100 ft 335 m
all land inside city limits
Dakota City is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 20 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dakota City | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Airport (SUX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.5 mi southeast of the city limits | 1,099 ft335 m |
| Average of all land | 1,100 ft335 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Dakota County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 2,047 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.4 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,458 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.4155° N, 96.4184° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Sioux Gateway/brig General Bud Day Field (SUX) 1,099 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 68731
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sioux City, IA1,210 ft
- Hubbard1,160 ft
- Jackson1,120 ft
- Homer1,120 ft
- North Sioux City, SD1,110 ft
- South Sioux City1,100 ft
- Dakota City1,100 ft
- Big Sioux Township, SD1,090 ft
- Dakota Dunes, SD1,090 ft
- Sergeant Bluff, IA1,090 ft
- Salix, IA1,080 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska868th highest of 912
- Towns in Dakota Countylowest of 5
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.