Scotts Bluff County, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,950 ft 1,505 m4,650 ft 1,415 m4,500 ft 1,370 m4,200 ft 1,280 m3,910 ft 1,190 m3,760 ft 1,145 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
Scotts Bluff County averages about 4,140 ft (1,260 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 3,760 ft on the southeast side to 4,950 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
4,140 ft 1,260 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,950 ft 1,505 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
3,760 ft 1,145 m
on the southeast side
Scotts Bluff County spans about 1,190 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 | 4,140 ft1,260 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 4,950 ft1,505 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 3,760 ft1,145 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
21 mi south to north through Scottsbluff.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 35,734 2024 est.
- Land area
- 739.6 sq mi + 5.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 48 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- 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
- Banner County4,650 ft
- Goshen County, WY4,640 ft
- Sioux County4,440 ft
- Box Butte County4,170 ft
- Scotts Bluff County4,140 ft
- Morrill County4,000 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Nebraska6th highest of 93
- Counties in the United States251st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Signal Butte4,890 ft
- Rifle Sight4,730 ft
- Scotts Bluff4,653 ft
- Bead Mountain4,620 ft
- Coyote Rock4,480 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.