Potter, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,510 ft 1,375 m4,470 ft 1,365 m4,450 ft 1,355 m4,420 ft 1,345 m4,380 ft 1,335 m4,360 ft 1,330 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Potter sits at about 4,410 ft (1,345 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,410 ft 1,345 m
most residents: 4,390–4,440 ft
Lowest
4,360 ft 1,330 m
on the east side
Highest
4,510 ft 1,375 m
near the middle
Average
4,400 ft 1,340 m
all land inside village limits
Potter spans about 150 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 | 4,410 ft1,345 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, near the middle | 4,510 ft1,375 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the east side | 4,360 ft1,330 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Potter | 4,400 ft1,340 m |
| Average of all land | 4,400 ft1,340 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
12 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 4,410 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
203.8 °F95.5 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
85% of sea level
25.5 inHg (86.2 kPa): each breath holds 15% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.8% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+9% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Cheyenne County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 343 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.4 sq mi
- Density
- 238 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.2175° N, 103.3158° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Lodgepole Creek → South Platte River → Middle Channel Platte River → Platte River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 69156 69162
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska6th highest of 912
- Towns in Cheyenne Countyhighest of 7
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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 4,360 ft at 41.2324° N, 103.0904° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.