Town of Black Earth, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,100 ft 335 m1,010 ft 310 m970 ft 295 m880 ft 270 m790 ft 240 m750 ft 230 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Town of Black Earth sits at about 870 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
870 ft 265 m
most residents: 800–1,050 ft
Lowest
750 ft 230 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,100 ft 335 m
on the west side
Average
890 ft 270 m
all land inside town boundaries
Town of Black Earth spans about 350 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 | 870 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 750 ft230 m |
| Average of all land | 890 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.0 mi south to north through the middle of Town of Black Earth.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 505 2024 est.
- Land area
- 17.1 sq mi
- Density
- 30 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.1540° N, 89.7729° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wisconsin River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 53515 53560
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Berry1,040 ft
- Vermont1,010 ft
- Town of Cross Plains1,000 ft
- Cross Plains910 ft
- Roxbury910 ft
- Town of Black Earth870 ft
- Black Earth820 ft
- Town of Mazomanie780 ft
- Mazomanie780 ft
- Arena760 ft
- Village of Arena740 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,411th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Dane County52nd highest of 59
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blue Mounds1,720 ft
- Indian Castle1,170 ft
- Pine Knob, Iowa County1,140 ft
- Round Top Hill1,130 ft
- Twin Bluffs, Sauk County960 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.