Buffalo County, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,360 ft 415 m1,180 ft 360 m1,090 ft 335 m910 ft 280 m740 ft 225 m650 ft 195 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Buffalo County averages about 960 ft (295 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 650 ft on the southeast side to 1,360 ft on the northeast side.
Average elevation
960 ft 295 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,360 ft 415 m
on the northeast side
Lowest
650 ft 195 m
on the southeast side
Buffalo County spans about 710 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 960 ft295 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 650 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
35 mi south to north through Mondovi.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 13,464 2024 est.
- Land area
- 675.8 sq mi + 33.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 20 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Winona County, MN1,090 ft
- Wabasha County, MN1,010 ft
- Eau Claire County990 ft
- Buffalo County960 ft
- Trempealeau County930 ft
- Pepin County920 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Wisconsin36th highest of 71
- Counties in the United States1,469th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Eagle Peak1,300 ft
- Tom Mountain1,190 ft
- Eagle Point1,130 ft
- Owl Head1,100 ft
All 25 towns in Buffalo County by typical elevation
- Belvidere1,180 ft
- Lincoln, Buffalo County1,170 ft
- Buffalo, Buffalo County1,110 ft
- Cross1,070 ft
- Montana1,050 ft
- Alma, Buffalo County1,030 ft
- Canton1,030 ft
- Nelson980 ft
- Maxville980 ft
- Glencoe960 ft
- Dover, Buffalo County960 ft
- Naples920 ft
- Modena910 ft
- Town of Mondovi890 ft
- Gilmanton870 ft
- Waumandee840 ft
- Gilmanton, Buffalo County820 ft
- Mondovi810 ft
- Fountain City790 ft
- City of Alma770 ft
- Waumandee, Buffalo County770 ft
- Village of Nelson710 ft
- Town of Milton680 ft
- Buffalo City670 ft
- Cochrane670 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.