Waco, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,640 ft 500 m1,630 ft 495 m1,630 ft 495 m1,620 ft 495 m1,610 ft 490 m1,610 ft 490 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
Waco sits at about 1,620 ft (495 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,620 ft 495 m
most residents: 1,610–1,630 ft
Lowest
1,610 ft 490 m
on the east side
Highest
1,630 ft 495 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,620 ft 495 m
all land inside village limits
Waco 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 | 1,620 ft495 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 1,630 ft495 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the east side | 1,610 ft490 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Waco | 1,620 ft495 m |
| Airport (JYR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.2 mi west of the village limits | 1,670 ft509 m |
| Average of all land | 1,620 ft495 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in York County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 308 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 1,222 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8970° N, 97.4634° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- West Fork Big Blue River → Big Blue River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- York Municipal (JYR) 1,670 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 68460
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Benedict1,680 ft
- York1,640 ft
- Waco1,620 ft
- Gresham1,610 ft
- Utica1,590 ft
- Thayer1,580 ft
- Cordova1,560 ft
- McCool Junction1,560 ft
- Tamora1,550 ft
- Goehner1,540 ft
- Beaver Crossing1,460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska477th highest of 912
- Towns in York County6th highest of 9
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, 1,600 ft at 40.8954° N, 97.4574° 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. All public domain.