Lake Waconda, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
990 ft 300 m980 ft 295 m970 ft 295 m960 ft 290 m940 ft 285 m940 ft 285 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lake Waconda sits at about 940 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
940 ft 285 m
nearly all residents at this height
Lowest
940 ft 285 m
near the middle
Highest
990 ft 300 m
on the southwest side
Average
940 ft 285 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Lake Waconda spans about 50 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 | 940 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 990 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, near the middle | 940 ft285 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lake Waconda | 940 ft285 m |
| Airport (PMV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.2 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 1,204 ft367 m |
| Average of all land | 940 ft285 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Cass County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 179 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,479 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8430° N, 95.8530° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Plattsmouth Muni/douglas V Duey Field (PMV) 1,204 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tabor, IA1,240 ft
- Murray1,180 ft
- Plattsmouth1,080 ft
- Beaver Lake1,070 ft
- Nebraska City1,020 ft
- Nehawka1,000 ft
- Union1,000 ft
- Thurman, IA980 ft
- Bartlett, IA940 ft
- Lake Waconda940 ft
- Percival, IA930 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska909th highest of 912
- Towns in Cass Countylowest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- King Hill1,190 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Lake Waconda is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.