Preston, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
970 ft 295 m940 ft 290 m930 ft 285 m910 ft 280 m890 ft 270 m880 ft 270 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Preston sits at about 920 ft (280 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
920 ft 280 m
few residents
Lowest
880 ft 270 m
on the northwest side
Highest
970 ft 295 m
on the south side
Average
920 ft 280 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Preston spans about 90 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 920 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 970 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 880 ft270 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Preston | 940 ft290 m |
| Airport (FNB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.8 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 984 ft300 m |
| Average of all land | 920 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Richardson County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 19 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 333 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0344° N, 95.5172° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Brenner Field (FNB) 984 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 68355
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hamlin, KS1,000 ft
- Hamlin Township, KS990 ft
- Falls City990 ft
- Padonia Township, KS980 ft
- Salem970 ft
- Irving Township, KS970 ft
- Reserve, KS950 ft
- Rulo930 ft
- Preston920 ft
- Fortescue, MO860 ft
- Big Lake, MO850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska911th highest of 912
- Towns in Richardson Countylowest of 10
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (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.
- Preston is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.