Dawson County, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,980 ft 910 m2,800 ft 855 m2,710 ft 825 m2,530 ft 770 m2,350 ft 715 m2,260 ft 690 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
Dawson County averages about 2,530 ft (770 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,260 ft on the southeast side to 2,980 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
2,530 ft 770 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,980 ft 910 m
on the west side
Lowest
2,260 ft 690 m
on the southeast side
Dawson County spans about 720 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 | 2,530 ft770 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 2,980 ft910 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 2,260 ft690 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
42 mi west to east through Lexington.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 24,554 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,013.8 sq mi + 5.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 24 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
- Frontier County2,660 ft
- Custer County2,610 ft
- Dawson County2,530 ft
- Gosper County2,460 ft
- Phelps County2,330 ft
- Buffalo County2,190 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Nebraska31st highest of 93
- Counties in the United States482nd highest of 3,151
All 8 towns in Dawson County by typical elevation
- Farnam2,760 ft
- Gothenburg2,580 ft
- Willow Island2,530 ft
- Cozad2,490 ft
- Eddyville2,450 ft
- Lexington2,390 ft
- Sumner2,370 ft
- Overton2,320 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.
- 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.