Garfield County, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,530 ft 770 m2,420 ft 735 m2,360 ft 720 m2,240 ft 685 m2,120 ft 650 m2,070 ft 630 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Garfield County averages about 2,280 ft (695 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,070 ft on the east side to 2,530 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
2,280 ft 695 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,530 ft 770 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
2,070 ft 630 m
on the east side
Garfield County spans about 460 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 2,280 ft695 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 2,530 ft770 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 2,070 ft630 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Burwell.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 1,707 2024 est.
- Land area
- 569.4 sq mi + 2.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.0 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Custer County2,610 ft
- Loup County2,420 ft
- Garfield County2,280 ft
- Valley County2,200 ft
- Wheeler County2,100 ft
- Holt County2,030 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Nebraska37th highest of 93
- Counties in the United States535th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Windy Hill2,460 ft
The one town in Garfield County
- Burwell2,170 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.