Grand Island, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,910 ft 580 m1,890 ft 575 m1,880 ft 575 m1,860 ft 565 m1,840 ft 560 m1,830 ft 555 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Grand Island sits at about 1,870 ft (570 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,870 ft 570 m
most residents: 1,850–1,880 ft
Lowest
1,830 ft 555 m
on the east side
Highest
1,910 ft 580 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,860 ft 565 m
all land inside city limits
Grand Island spans about 80 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 | 1,870 ft570 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,910 ft580 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,830 ft555 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Grand Island | 1,860 ft570 m |
| Airport (GRI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,847 ft563 m |
| Average of all land | 1,860 ft565 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Hall County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 53,250 2024 est.
- Land area
- 30.3 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,760 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.9250° N, 98.3420° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Platte River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Central Nebraska Regional (GRI) 1,847 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 68801 68803
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cairo1,950 ft
- Doniphan1,940 ft
- Alda1,910 ft
- Phillips1,890 ft
- St. Libory1,870 ft
- Grand Island1,870 ft
- Giltner1,830 ft
- Vieregg Township1,820 ft
- Prairie Creek Township1,790 ft
- Chapman Township, Merrick County1,770 ft
- Chapman1,770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska303rd highest of 912
- Towns in Hall Countylowest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Topeka Peak2,095 ft
- Mumpumpey Hill1,980 ft
- Pool Hill1,970 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.