Town of Benton, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,040 ft 315 m950 ft 290 m900 ft 275 m810 ft 245 m720 ft 220 m670 ft 205 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Town of Benton sits at about 940 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
940 ft 285 m
most residents: 790–990 ft
Lowest
670 ft 205 m
on the south side
Highest
1,040 ft 315 m
on the southwest side
Average
900 ft 275 m
all land inside town boundaries
Town of Benton spans about 370 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 | 940 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 670 ft205 m |
| Airport (PVB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.6 mi north of the town boundaries | 1,025 ft312 m |
| Average of all land | 900 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.1 mi south to north through the middle of Town of Benton.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Lafayette County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 506 2024 est.
- Land area
- 28.0 sq mi
- Density
- 18 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.5881° N, 90.3892° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Platteville Municipal (PVB) 1,025 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 53803 53807 53811
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- White Oak Springs1,050 ft
- Cuba City1,000 ft
- Elk Grove990 ft
- Smelser950 ft
- Hazel Green940 ft
- Town of Benton940 ft
- Town of Hazel Green930 ft
- Benton910 ft
- Jamestown900 ft
- New Diggings890 ft
- Council Hill Township, IL810 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,089th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Lafayette County15th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Platte Mounds1,440 ft
- Belmont Mound1,400 ft
- Little Mound1,280 ft
- White Hill1,250 ft
- Sinsinawa Mound1,160 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.