Shelton, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,040 ft 620 m2,030 ft 620 m2,030 ft 615 m2,020 ft 615 m2,010 ft 610 m2,010 ft 610 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Shelton sits at about 2,020 ft (615 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,020 ft 615 m
most residents: 2,010–2,020 ft
Lowest
2,010 ft 610 m
on the northeast side
Highest
2,030 ft 620 m
on the northeast side
Average
2,020 ft 615 m
all land inside village limits
Shelton is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 20 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 2,020 ft615 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northeast side | 2,030 ft620 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the northeast side | 2,010 ft610 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shelton | 2,020 ft615 m |
| Airport (EAR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi west of the village limits | 2,132 ft650 m |
| Average of all land | 2,020 ft615 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Buffalo County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 1,045 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 1,084 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7792° N, 98.7309° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Platte River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Kearney Regional (EAR) 2,132 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 68876
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska247th highest of 912
- Towns in Buffalo County11th highest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Topeka Peak2,095 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village limits, 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 village limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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, 2,000 ft at 40.7835° N, 98.7163° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.