La Crescent, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,220 ft 375 m1,080 ft 330 m1,000 ft 305 m850 ft 260 m710 ft 215 m630 ft 195 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
La Crescent sits at about 690 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
690 ft 210 m
most residents: 670–800 ft
Lowest
630 ft 195 m
on the east side
Highest
1,220 ft 375 m
on the north side
Average
740 ft 225 m
all land inside city limits
La Crescent spans about 590 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 | 690 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,220 ft375 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 630 ft195 m |
| Town center USGS map point for La Crescent | 690 ft210 m |
| Airport (LSE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.0 mi northeast of the city limits | 655 ft200 m |
| Average of all land | 740 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Houston and Winona counties, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 5,257 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.4 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,559 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.8280° N, 91.3040° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- La Crosse Regional (LSE) 655 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 55947
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Dresbach Township1,050 ft
- La Crescent Township920 ft
- Hokah Township900 ft
- Medary, WI820 ft
- Dresbach770 ft
- Onalaska, WI720 ft
- Hokah710 ft
- La Crescent690 ft
- La Crosse, WI670 ft
- French Island, WI650 ft
- Campbell, WI650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,687th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Houston County23rd highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Fairy Rock1,170 ft
- Cushings Peak1,050 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.