Farnam, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,810 ft 855 m2,790 ft 850 m2,780 ft 845 m2,750 ft 840 m2,730 ft 830 m2,710 ft 830 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Farnam sits at about 2,760 ft (840 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,760 ft 840 m
most residents: 2,740–2,790 ft
Lowest
2,710 ft 825 m
on the east side
Highest
2,810 ft 855 m
on the north side
Average
2,750 ft 840 m
all land inside village limits
Farnam spans about 100 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 | 2,760 ft840 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the north side | 2,810 ft855 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the east side | 2,710 ft825 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Farnam | 2,750 ft840 m |
| Average of all land | 2,750 ft840 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Dawson County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 181 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 269 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7058° N, 100.2149° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Middle Channel Platte River → Platte River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 69029
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Moorefield2,830 ft
- Farnam2,760 ft
- Maywood2,680 ft
- Elwood2,670 ft
- Brady2,650 ft
- Eustis2,640 ft
- Curtis2,590 ft
- Gothenburg2,580 ft
- Willow Island2,530 ft
- Cozad2,490 ft
- Stockville2,490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska92nd highest of 912
- Towns in Dawson Countyhighest 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.