Ponca Township, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,510 ft 460 m1,400 ft 425 m1,350 ft 410 m1,250 ft 380 m1,140 ft 350 m1,090 ft 330 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ponca Township sits at about 1,250 ft (380 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,250 ft 380 m
most residents: 1,120–1,330 ft
Lowest
1,090 ft 330 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,510 ft 460 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,230 ft 375 m
all land inside township boundaries
Ponca Township spans about 420 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 | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,090 ft330 m |
| Average of all land | 1,230 ft375 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.2 mi west to east through the middle of Ponca Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Dixon County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 363 2024 est.
- Land area
- 46.7 sq mi + 2.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 7.8 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.5922° N, 96.7380° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Silvercreek Township1,390 ft
- Galena Township1,370 ft
- Newcastle Township1,300 ft
- Newcastle1,290 ft
- Martinsburg1,250 ft
- Ponca Township1,250 ft
- Ponca1,160 ft
- Elk Point, SD1,130 ft
- Elk Point Township, SD1,120 ft
- Civil Bend Township, SD1,120 ft
- Jefferson, SD1,110 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska779th highest of 912
- Towns in Dixon County21st highest of 23
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Indian Hill, Dixon County1,430 ft
- Boy Scout Hill1,410 ft
- Rattlesnake Hill, Dixon County1,380 ft
- Lookout Hill1,350 ft
- Volcano Hill1,350 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (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); BTS time zones. All public domain.