Richardson County, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,320 ft 400 m1,200 ft 365 m1,140 ft 345 m1,020 ft 310 m900 ft 275 m840 ft 255 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
Richardson County averages about 1,030 ft (315 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 840 ft on the southeast side to 1,320 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
1,030 ft 315 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,320 ft 400 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
840 ft 255 m
on the southeast side
Richardson County spans about 480 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 | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 1,320 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 840 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
18 mi south to north through Falls City.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 7,666 2024 est.
- Land area
- 551.8 sq mi + 2.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 14 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Pawnee County1,280 ft
- Nemaha County, KS1,250 ft
- Brown County, KS1,090 ft
- Nemaha County1,060 ft
- Richardson County1,030 ft
- Doniphan County, KS990 ft
- Holt County, MO940 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Nebraskalowest of 93
- Counties in the United States1,354th 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.