Harvard, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,820 ft 555 m1,820 ft 555 m1,810 ft 550 m1,800 ft 550 m1,800 ft 545 m1,790 ft 545 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Harvard sits at about 1,800 ft (550 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,800 ft 550 m
nearly all residents at this height
Lowest
1,790 ft 545 m
on the south side
Highest
1,810 ft 550 m
on the north side
Average
1,800 ft 550 m
all land inside city limits
Harvard is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 20 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 1,800 ft550 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,810 ft550 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,790 ft545 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Harvard | 1,800 ft550 m |
| Airport (08K) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.6 mi north of the city limits | 1,815 ft553 m |
| Average of all land | 1,800 ft550 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Clay County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 942 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 1,460 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6189° N, 98.0973° 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
- Harvard State (08K) 1,815 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 68944
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Leicester Township1,870 ft
- Inland Township1,860 ft
- Inland1,860 ft
- Harvard Township1,800 ft
- Harvard1,800 ft
- Lynn Township1,790 ft
- Lone Tree Township, Clay County1,790 ft
- Clay Center1,780 ft
- Eldorado Township1,770 ft
- Lewis Township1,760 ft
- Saronville1,750 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska334th highest of 912
- Towns in Clay County8th highest of 27
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. All public domain.