Emerson Township, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,570 ft 480 m1,500 ft 460 m1,470 ft 450 m1,400 ft 430 m1,340 ft 405 m1,300 ft 395 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
Emerson Township sits at about 1,460 ft (445 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,460 ft 445 m
most residents: 1,440–1,490 ft
Lowest
1,300 ft 395 m
on the north side
Highest
1,570 ft 480 m
on the north side
Average
1,460 ft 445 m
all land inside township boundaries
Emerson Township spans about 270 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 | 1,460 ft445 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,570 ft480 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Emerson Township | 1,500 ft455 m |
| Average of all land | 1,460 ft445 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Dixon County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 476 2024 est.
- Land area
- 26.6 sq mi
- Density
- 18 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.2786° N, 96.7267° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Logan Creek Dredge → Elkhorn 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
- Springbank Township1,510 ft
- Emerson1,470 ft
- Emerson Township1,460 ft
- Perry Township1,450 ft
- Thayer Township1,430 ft
- Flournoy Township1,400 ft
- Wakefield1,400 ft
- Wakefield Township1,400 ft
- Thurston1,400 ft
- Merry Township1,390 ft
- Hubbard1,160 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska581st highest of 912
- Towns in Dixon County8th highest of 23
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cottonwood Hill1,540 ft
- Lookout Hill1,350 ft
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).
- 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.