Fairmont, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,680 ft 510 m1,670 ft 510 m1,660 ft 505 m1,650 ft 505 m1,640 ft 500 m1,630 ft 495 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Fairmont sits at about 1,640 ft (500 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,640 ft 500 m
nearly all residents at this height
Lowest
1,630 ft 495 m
on the south side
Highest
1,680 ft 510 m
on the west side
Average
1,650 ft 500 m
all land inside village limits
Fairmont spans about 50 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 | 1,640 ft500 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the west side | 1,680 ft510 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the south side | 1,630 ft495 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fairmont | 1,640 ft500 m |
| Airport (FMZ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.2 mi south of the village limits | 1,636 ft499 m |
| Average of all land | 1,650 ft500 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Fillmore County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 578 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 502 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6370° N, 97.5853° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- West Fork Big Blue River → Big Blue River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Fairmont State (FMZ) 1,636 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 68354
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Grafton1,690 ft
- Grafton Township1,690 ft
- West Blue Township1,650 ft
- Stanton Township1,640 ft
- Madison Township1,640 ft
- Geneva1,640 ft
- Fairmont1,640 ft
- Chelsea Township1,630 ft
- Exeter-Fairmont Consolidated Township1,610 ft
- Exeter1,610 ft
- McCool Junction1,560 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska463rd highest of 912
- Towns in Fillmore County10th highest of 21
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).
- 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, 1,630 ft at 40.6110° N, 97.6043° 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, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.