Kearney County, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,290 ft 695 m2,210 ft 675 m2,180 ft 665 m2,100 ft 640 m2,030 ft 620 m1,990 ft 610 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
Kearney County averages about 2,140 ft (655 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,990 ft on the southeast side to 2,290 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
2,140 ft 655 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,290 ft 695 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
1,990 ft 605 m
on the southeast side
Kearney County spans about 300 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 | 2,140 ft655 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 2,290 ft695 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,990 ft605 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Minden.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 6,749 2024 est.
- Land area
- 516.2 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 13 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
- Phelps County2,330 ft
- Buffalo County2,190 ft
- Kearney County2,140 ft
- Franklin County2,040 ft
- Adams County1,950 ft
- Webster County1,880 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Nebraska43rd highest of 93
- Counties in the United States577th highest of 3,151
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.