Perkins County, NE Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
3,650 ft 1,110 m3,520 ft 1,070 m3,450 ft 1,050 m3,320 ft 1,010 m3,190 ft 970 m3,120 ft 950 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
Perkins County averages about 3,390 ft (1,035 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,120 ft on the east side to 3,650 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
3,390 ft 1,035 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,650 ft 1,110 m
on the west side
Lowest
3,120 ft 950 m
on the east side
Perkins County spans about 530 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 | 3,390 ft1,035 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 3,650 ft1,110 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 3,120 ft950 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
42 mi west to east through Grant.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 2,779 2024 est.
- Land area
- 883.3 sq mi + 1.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.1 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 96%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Phillips County, CO3,820 ft
- Sedgwick County, CO3,750 ft
- Deuel County3,740 ft
- Perkins County3,390 ft
- Keith County3,370 ft
- Chase County3,340 ft
- Hayes County3,020 ft
- Lincoln County2,980 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Nebraska14th highest of 93
- Counties in the United States323rd 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.