Dawes County, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,840 ft 1,475 m4,390 ft 1,340 m4,170 ft 1,270 m3,720 ft 1,135 m3,270 ft 995 m3,040 ft 930 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- 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
Dawes County averages about 3,820 ft (1,165 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,040 ft on the northeast side to 4,840 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
3,820 ft 1,165 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,840 ft 1,475 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
3,040 ft 930 m
on the northeast side
Dawes County spans about 1,800 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 | 3,820 ft1,165 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 4,840 ft1,475 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 3,040 ft930 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
39 mi south to north through Chadron.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 8,003 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,396.4 sq mi + 4.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 5.7 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- 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
- Sioux County4,440 ft
- Box Butte County4,170 ft
- Dawes County3,820 ft
- Sheridan County3,820 ft
- Fall River County, SD3,590 ft
- Oglala Lakota County, SD3,090 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Nebraska8th highest of 93
- Counties in the United States273rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- First Woman Mound4,680 ft
- Litle Crow Butte4,460 ft
- Barrel Butte4,460 ft
- Crown Butte4,390 ft
- Red Cloud Buttes4,380 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 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; 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, 3,040 ft at 42.9999° N, 102.8407° 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.