South Branch Township, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,040 ft 620 m1,970 ft 600 m1,930 ft 590 m1,860 ft 565 m1,790 ft 545 m1,750 ft 535 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
South Branch Township sits at about 1,920 ft (585 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,920 ft 585 m
most residents: 1,840–1,960 ft
Lowest
1,750 ft 535 m
on the east side
Highest
2,040 ft 620 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,890 ft 575 m
all land inside township boundaries
South Branch Township spans about 290 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 | 1,920 ft585 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 2,040 ft620 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,750 ft535 m |
| Average of all land | 1,890 ft575 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the middle of South Branch Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Nance County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 37 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.7 sq mi
- Density
- 1.0 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.4448° N, 98.2342° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Loup River → Platte River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- South Branch Township1,920 ft
- Wolbach1,880 ft
- Primrose1,840 ft
- Cottonwood Township1,830 ft
- Loup Ferry Township1,830 ft
- Cedar Township1,800 ft
- Cushing1,790 ft
- Cedar Rapids1,770 ft
- Timber Creek Township1,740 ft
- Belgrade1,730 ft
- Fullerton Township1,650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska282nd highest of 912
- Towns in Nance Countyhighest of 15
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pilot Knob1,990 ft
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).
- 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, 1,750 ft at 41.4435° N, 98.1768° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.