Burns, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,400 ft 425 m1,230 ft 375 m1,140 ft 345 m960 ft 295 m790 ft 240 m700 ft 215 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Burns sits at about 900 ft (275 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
900 ft 275 m
most residents: 730–1,030 ft
Lowest
700 ft 215 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,400 ft 425 m
on the north side
Average
920 ft 280 m
all land inside town boundaries
Burns spans about 700 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 | 900 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 1,400 ft425 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 700 ft215 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Burns | 770 ft235 m |
| Airport (LSE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi west of the town boundaries | 655 ft200 m |
| Average of all land | 920 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 927 2024 est.
- Land area
- 48.2 sq mi
- Density
- 19 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.9450° N, 90.9760° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- La Crosse River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- La Crosse Regional (LSE) 655 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 54614 54644
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Town of Bangor910 ft
- Leon, Monroe County910 ft
- Burns900 ft
- Farmington, La Crosse County870 ft
- Town of Sparta850 ft
- Sparta790 ft
- Mindoro780 ft
- Hamilton770 ft
- Village of Rockland760 ft
- West Salem740 ft
- Bangor740 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,262nd highest of 2,049
- Towns in La Crosse County5th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Wadels Hill1,410 ft
- Wanlass Hill1,370 ft
- Krueger Hill1,360 ft
- Pettinger Hill1,140 ft
- Moss Hill1,050 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.