Elk Creek Township, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,540 ft 775 m2,460 ft 750 m2,410 ft 735 m2,330 ft 710 m2,240 ft 685 m2,200 ft 670 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Elk Creek Township sits at about 2,380 ft (725 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,380 ft 725 m
most residents: 2,310–2,430 ft
Lowest
2,200 ft 670 m
on the east side
Highest
2,540 ft 775 m
on the northwest side
Average
2,340 ft 715 m
all land inside township boundaries
Elk Creek Township spans about 340 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 | 2,380 ft725 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 2,540 ft775 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 2,200 ft670 m |
| Average of all land | 2,340 ft715 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.0 mi south to north through the middle of Elk Creek Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Custer County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 132 2024 est.
- Land area
- 95.0 sq mi
- Density
- 1.4 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.0909° N, 99.3412° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- South Loup River → Middle Loup River → Loup River → Platte River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Eddyville2,450 ft
- Loup Township, Custer County2,420 ft
- Elk Creek Township2,380 ft
- Sumner2,370 ft
- Miller2,320 ft
- Ansley Township2,310 ft
- Ansley2,310 ft
- Algernon Township2,280 ft
- Mason City2,270 ft
- Litchfield2,170 ft
- Hazard2,110 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska148th highest of 912
- Towns in Custer County29th highest of 42
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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, 2,190 ft at 41.1610° N, 99.2307° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.