Wauneta, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,140 ft 960 m3,090 ft 940 m3,060 ft 935 m3,010 ft 915 m2,950 ft 900 m2,920 ft 890 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
Wauneta sits at about 2,960 ft (900 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,960 ft 900 m
most residents: 2,940–2,980 ft
Lowest
2,920 ft 890 m
on the southeast side
Highest
3,140 ft 960 m
on the southwest side
Average
2,980 ft 905 m
all land inside village limits
Wauneta spans about 220 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 | 2,960 ft900 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 3,140 ft960 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southeast side | 2,920 ft890 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wauneta | 2,940 ft895 m |
| Average of all land | 2,980 ft905 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Chase County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 527 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 678 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.4183° N, 101.3713° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Frenchman Creek → Republican River → Kansas River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 69045
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska73rd highest of 912
- Towns in Chase Countylowest of 5
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).
- 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.