West Union Township, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,710 ft 825 m2,620 ft 800 m2,570 ft 785 m2,470 ft 755 m2,380 ft 725 m2,330 ft 710 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
West Union Township sits at about 2,410 ft (735 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,410 ft 735 m
most residents: 2,360–2,580 ft
Lowest
2,330 ft 710 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,710 ft 825 m
on the northwest side
Average
2,480 ft 755 m
all land inside township boundaries
West Union Township spans about 380 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 | 2,410 ft735 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 2,710 ft825 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 2,330 ft710 m |
| Airport (09K) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.2 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 2,313 ft705 m |
| Average of all land | 2,480 ft755 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.1 mi south to north through the middle of West Union Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Custer County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 72 2024 est.
- Land area
- 41.7 sq mi
- Density
- 1.7 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.6838° N, 99.4911° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Middle Loup River → Loup River → Platte River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Sargent Municipal (09K) 2,313 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Garfield Township, Custer County2,550 ft
- Lillian Township2,530 ft
- Milburn Township2,480 ft
- Corner Township2,420 ft
- Douglas Grove Township2,410 ft
- West Union Township2,410 ft
- Sargent Township2,320 ft
- Sargent2,320 ft
- Taylor2,270 ft
- Comstock Township2,260 ft
- Comstock2,250 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska142nd highest of 912
- Towns in Custer County27th highest of 42
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- East Table2,890 ft
- Boggs Table2,660 ft
- French Tableland2,620 ft
- Divide Hill2,550 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.