Shell Creek Township, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,690 ft 515 m1,630 ft 500 m1,610 ft 490 m1,550 ft 475 m1,500 ft 455 m1,470 ft 450 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Shell Creek Township sits at about 1,540 ft (470 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,540 ft 470 m
most residents: 1,530–1,650 ft
Lowest
1,470 ft 450 m
on the east side
Highest
1,690 ft 515 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,570 ft 480 m
all land inside township boundaries
Shell Creek Township spans about 220 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 | 1,540 ft470 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,690 ft515 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,470 ft450 m |
| Airport (OLU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.7 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 1,447 ft441 m |
| Average of all land | 1,570 ft480 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Shell Creek Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Platte County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 967 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.7 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 27 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.5073° N, 97.4044° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Platte River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Columbus Municipal (OLU) 1,447 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Grand Prairie Township1,660 ft
- Sherman Township, Platte County1,620 ft
- Lost Creek Township1,550 ft
- Platte Center1,550 ft
- Lakeview1,540 ft
- Shell Creek Township1,540 ft
- Oconee Township1,520 ft
- Bismark Township1,510 ft
- Butler Township1,500 ft
- Columbus Township1,460 ft
- Columbus1,450 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska543rd highest of 912
- Towns in Platte County20th highest of 27
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.