Whitney, NE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,440 ft 1,050 m3,430 ft 1,045 m3,430 ft 1,045 m3,420 ft 1,040 m3,410 ft 1,040 m3,400 ft 1,035 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
Whitney sits at about 3,410 ft (1,040 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,410 ft 1,040 m
most residents: 3,410–3,420 ft
Lowest
3,400 ft 1,035 m
on the southwest side
Highest
3,440 ft 1,050 m
on the west side
Average
3,410 ft 1,040 m
all land inside village limits
Whitney spans about 40 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 | 3,410 ft1,040 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the west side | 3,440 ft1,050 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 3,400 ft1,035 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Whitney | 3,410 ft1,040 m |
| Airport (CDR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.7 mi northeast of the village limits | 3,298 ft1,005 m |
| Average of all land | 3,410 ft1,040 m |
Altitude Effects
What 3,410 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
205.7 °F96.5 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
88% of sea level
26.4 inHg (89.4 kPa): each breath holds 12% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.5% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+7% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Dawes County, Nebraska, United States
- Population
- 58 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 367 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.7827° N, 103.2560° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- White River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Chadron Municipal (CDR) 3,298 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 69367
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Harrison4,870 ft
- Hemingford4,260 ft
- Hay Springs3,850 ft
- Crawford3,690 ft
- Ardmore, SD3,560 ft
- Whitney3,410 ft
- Chadron3,400 ft
- Angostura, SD3,400 ft
- Oelrichs, SD3,370 ft
- Smithwick, SD3,280 ft
- Oglala, SD3,030 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Nebraska41st highest of 912
- Towns in Dawes County2nd highest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Litle Crow Butte4,460 ft
- Barrel Butte4,460 ft
- Crown Butte4,390 ft
- Crow Butte4,370 ft
- Trunk Butte3,540 ft
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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.