Tilden, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,740 ft 530 m1,720 ft 525 m1,710 ft 520 m1,690 ft 515 m1,670 ft 510 m1,660 ft 505 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Tilden sits at about 1,690 ft (515 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,690 ft 515 m
most residents: 1,670–1,690 ft
Lowest
1,660 ft 505 m
on the east side
Highest
1,740 ft 530 m
on the south side
Average
1,680 ft 515 m
all land inside city limits
Tilden spans about 80 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 | 1,690 ft515 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,740 ft530 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,660 ft505 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Tilden | 1,680 ft510 m |
| Average of all land | 1,680 ft515 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Madison and Antelope counties, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 982 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 1,265 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.0472° N, 97.8340° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Elkhorn River → Platte River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 68781
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Raeville1,940 ft
- Elgin1,940 ft
- Petersburg1,900 ft
- Clearwater1,790 ft
- Neligh1,760 ft
- Oakdale1,710 ft
- Tilden1,690 ft
- Foster1,640 ft
- Meadow Grove1,630 ft
- Battle Creek1,590 ft
- Pierce1,580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska413th highest of 912
- Towns in Madison County2nd highest of 6
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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.