Washington County, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,390 ft 425 m1,280 ft 390 m1,230 ft 375 m1,130 ft 345 m1,030 ft 310 m970 ft 295 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Washington County averages about 1,200 ft (365 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 970 ft on the southeast side to 1,390 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
1,200 ft 365 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,390 ft 425 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
970 ft 295 m
on the southeast side
Washington County spans about 420 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,390 ft425 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 970 ft295 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
22 mi west to east through Blair.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 21,254 2024 est.
- Land area
- 389.9 sq mi + 3.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 55 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Dodge County1,300 ft
- Burt County1,230 ft
- Washington County1,200 ft
- Pottawattamie County, IA1,180 ft
- Harrison County, IA1,160 ft
- Douglas County1,160 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Nebraska87th highest of 93
- Counties in the United States1,112th highest of 3,151
All 12 towns in Washington County by typical elevation
- Fontanelle1,340 ft
- 61,290 ft
- 21,240 ft
- 71,210 ft
- Arlington1,200 ft
- Kennard1,190 ft
- 11,180 ft
- 51,170 ft
- Washington1,140 ft
- Fort Calhoun1,090 ft
- Blair1,090 ft
- Herman1,040 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, 860 ft at 41.4729° N, 96.0182° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.