Merna, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,760 ft 840 m2,730 ft 835 m2,720 ft 830 m2,680 ft 820 m2,650 ft 810 m2,640 ft 805 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Merna sits at about 2,660 ft (810 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,660 ft 810 m
most residents: 2,650–2,660 ft
Lowest
2,640 ft 805 m
on the west side
Highest
2,760 ft 840 m
on the northeast side
Average
2,670 ft 815 m
all land inside village limits
Merna spans about 120 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 | 2,660 ft810 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northeast side | 2,760 ft840 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the west side | 2,640 ft805 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Merna | 2,660 ft810 m |
| Airport (BBW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.4 mi southeast of the village limits | 2,546 ft776 m |
| Average of all land | 2,670 ft815 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Custer County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 343 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 640 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.4839° N, 99.7601° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Mud Creek → Middle Loup River → Loup River → Platte River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Broken Bow Muni/keith Glaze Field (BBW) 2,546 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 68856
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cliff Township2,930 ft
- Ryno Township2,720 ft
- Triumph Township2,720 ft
- Kilfoil Township2,660 ft
- Merna2,660 ft
- Victoria Township2,610 ft
- Anselmo2,600 ft
- Garfield Township, Custer County2,550 ft
- Lillian Township2,530 ft
- Broken Bow Township2,530 ft
- Broken Bow2,490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska105th highest of 912
- Towns in Custer County11th highest of 42
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- East Table2,890 ft
- Ryno Table2,820 ft
- French Tableland2,620 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 village 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.