Surprise, NE Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,580 ft 480 m1,570 ft 480 m1,560 ft 475 m1,550 ft 470 m1,530 ft 465 m1,530 ft 465 m

Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Surprise sits at about 1,540 ft (470 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside village limits (too few residents to weight by).

Typical elevation (all land)

1,540 ft 470 m

few residents

Lowest

1,530 ft 465 m

on the southeast side

Highest

1,580 ft 480 m

on the north side

Average

1,550 ft 470 m

all land inside village limits

Surprise spans about 50 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by	1,540 ft470 m
Highest point Inside village limits, on the north side	1,580 ft480 m
Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southeast side	1,530 ft465 m
Average of all land	1,550 ft470 m

Elevation profile, south to north

0.5 mi south to north through the middle of Surprise.

Topographic Map

Location: Village in Butler County, Nebraska, United States
Population: 40 2024 est.
Land area: 0.4 sq mi
Density: 102 per sq mi
Coordinates: 41.1034° N, 97.3103° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Great Plains
Drains to: Big Blue River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 68667

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Shelby1,640 ft
Gresham1,610 ft
Garrison1,600 ft
Union Township, Butler County1,590 ft
Reading Township1,590 ft
Rising City1,590 ft
Read Township1,590 ft
Ulysses Township1,550 ft
Ulysses1,540 ft
Surprise1,540 ft
Staplehurst1,490 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Nebraska544th highest of 912
Towns in Butler County19th highest of 29

How we measure

Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the village limits; too few residents live here to weight by people.
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).
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); BTS time zones. All public domain.