Polk County, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,780 ft 545 m1,700 ft 515 m1,650 ft 505 m1,570 ft 480 m1,480 ft 450 m1,440 ft 440 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
Polk County averages about 1,630 ft (500 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,440 ft on the northeast side to 1,780 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
1,630 ft 500 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,780 ft 545 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
1,440 ft 440 m
on the northeast side
Polk County spans about 340 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 | 1,630 ft500 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 1,780 ft545 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 1,440 ft440 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Stromsburg.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 5,269 2024 est.
- Land area
- 438.8 sq mi + 1.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 12 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
- Hamilton County1,790 ft
- Merrick County1,710 ft
- York County1,640 ft
- Polk County1,630 ft
- Platte County1,630 ft
- Butler County1,550 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Nebraska63rd highest of 93
- Counties in the United States770th highest of 3,151
All 4 towns in Polk County by typical elevation
- Polk1,740 ft
- Stromsburg1,680 ft
- Osceola1,660 ft
- Shelby1,640 ft
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.