Dorchester, NE Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,500 ft 460 m1,500 ft 455 m1,490 ft 455 m1,480 ft 450 m1,470 ft 450 m1,470 ft 450 m

Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
Village area: Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Dorchester sits at about 1,490 ft (455 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,490 ft 455 m

most residents: 1,480–1,490 ft

Lowest

1,470 ft 450 m

on the southeast side

Highest

1,500 ft 455 m

on the northwest side

Average

1,490 ft 455 m

all land inside village limits

Dorchester spans about 30 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	1,490 ft455 m
Highest point Inside village limits, on the northwest side	1,500 ft455 m
Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southeast side	1,470 ft450 m
Town center USGS map point for Dorchester	1,480 ft450 m
Average of all land	1,490 ft455 m

Topographic Map

Location: Village in Saline County, Nebraska, United States
Population: 621 2024 est.
Land area: 0.5 sq mi
Density: 1,242 per sq mi
Coordinates: 40.6472° N, 97.1134° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Great Plains
Drains to: Big Blue River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 68343

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Cordova1,560 ft
Friend1,550 ft
Goehner1,540 ft
Dorchester1,490 ft
Milford1,460 ft
Beaver Crossing1,460 ft
Kramer1,360 ft
Crete1,360 ft
Wilber1,330 ft
Pleasant Dale1,310 ft
Denton1,250 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Nebraska567th highest of 912
Towns in Saline County4th highest of 8

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 village 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.