Burlington, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
930 ft 285 m880 ft 270 m860 ft 265 m820 ft 250 m770 ft 235 m750 ft 225 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
Burlington sits at about 790 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
790 ft 240 m
most residents: 760–820 ft
Lowest
750 ft 225 m
on the southeast side
Highest
930 ft 285 m
on the southwest side
Average
790 ft 240 m
all land inside city limits
Burlington spans about 180 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 | 790 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 930 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 750 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Burlington | 770 ft235 m |
| Airport (BUU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 780 ft238 m |
| Average of all land | 790 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Racine County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 10,939 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.7 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,416 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.6781° N, 88.2762° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Fox River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Burlington Municipal (BUU) 780 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 53105
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Spring Prairie870 ft
- Lyons850 ft
- Bohners Lake840 ft
- Lyons, Walworth County810 ft
- Town of Burlington810 ft
- Browns Lake790 ft
- Village of Waterford790 ft
- Burlington790 ft
- Rochester780 ft
- New Munster780 ft
- Wheatland780 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,729th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Racine County9th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Tom, Racine County890 ft
- Mount Moriah870 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.