Wausa, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,840 ft 560 m1,810 ft 555 m1,800 ft 550 m1,780 ft 540 m1,760 ft 535 m1,740 ft 530 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
Wausa sits at about 1,780 ft (540 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,780 ft 540 m
most residents: 1,760–1,800 ft
Lowest
1,740 ft 530 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,840 ft 560 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,770 ft 540 m
all land inside village limits
Wausa spans about 100 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 | 1,780 ft540 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northeast side | 1,840 ft560 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southeast side | 1,740 ft530 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wausa | 1,770 ft540 m |
| Average of all land | 1,770 ft540 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Knox County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 582 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 1,111 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.4994° N, 97.5420° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- North Fork Elkhorn River → Elkhorn River → Platte River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 68786
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Dowling Township1,840 ft
- McLean1,830 ft
- Magnet1,820 ft
- Lincoln Township1,780 ft
- Wausa1,780 ft
- Cleveland Township, Knox County1,760 ft
- Columbia Township1,750 ft
- Morton Township1,730 ft
- Bloomfield1,710 ft
- Osmond1,660 ft
- Dolphin Township1,650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska351st highest of 912
- Towns in Knox County4th highest of 42
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.