Buena Vista, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,130 ft 345 m1,010 ft 310 m960 ft 290 m840 ft 255 m730 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
Buena Vista sits at about 710 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
710 ft 215 m
most residents: 700–840 ft
Lowest
670 ft 205 m
on the south side
Highest
1,130 ft 345 m
on the east side
Average
790 ft 240 m
all land inside town boundaries
Buena Vista spans about 460 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 | 710 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 670 ft205 m |
| Airport (93C) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 742 ft226 m |
| Average of all land | 790 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.4 mi south to north through the middle of Buena Vista.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Richland County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 1,800 2024 est.
- Land area
- 41.2 sq mi + 0.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 44 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.2439° N, 90.2857° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wisconsin River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Richland (93C) 742 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 53540 53556 53581 53584 53588
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bear Creek, Sauk County1,010 ft
- Town of Pulaski940 ft
- Ithaca920 ft
- Richland880 ft
- Orion850 ft
- Richland Center750 ft
- Sextonville730 ft
- Buena Vista710 ft
- Lone Rock710 ft
- Gotham700 ft
- Avoca700 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,904th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Richland County22nd highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dunbar Hill1,190 ft
- White Mound1,130 ft
- Pine Hill1,120 ft
- Pauls Hill1,080 ft
- Bigelow Hill1,080 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.