Seward County, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,640 ft 500 m1,540 ft 470 m1,490 ft 455 m1,400 ft 425 m1,300 ft 395 m1,250 ft 380 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
Seward County averages about 1,500 ft (460 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,250 ft on the southeast side to 1,640 ft on the north side.
Average elevation
1,500 ft 460 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,640 ft 500 m
on the north side
Lowest
1,250 ft 380 m
on the southeast side
Seward County spans about 390 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 | 1,500 ft460 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the north side | 1,640 ft500 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,250 ft380 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Seward.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 17,769 2024 est.
- Land area
- 571.4 sq mi + 4.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 31 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Great Plains 62%, Central Lowland 38%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- York County1,640 ft
- Butler County1,550 ft
- Seward County1,500 ft
- Saline County1,470 ft
- Lancaster County1,290 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Nebraska71st highest of 93
- Counties in the United States849th highest of 3,151
All 11 towns in Seward County by typical elevation
- Utica1,590 ft
- Garland1,570 ft
- Cordova1,560 ft
- Bee1,560 ft
- Tamora1,550 ft
- Goehner1,540 ft
- Staplehurst1,490 ft
- Seward1,490 ft
- Milford1,460 ft
- Beaver Crossing1,460 ft
- Pleasant Dale1,310 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.
- 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, 1,250 ft at 40.8004° N, 96.9118° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.