Canton, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,320 ft 405 m1,190 ft 365 m1,130 ft 345 m990 ft 305 m860 ft 265 m800 ft 245 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
Canton sits at about 1,030 ft (315 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,030 ft 315 m
most residents: 840–1,130 ft
Lowest
800 ft 245 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,320 ft 405 m
on the southeast side
Average
990 ft 300 m
all land inside town boundaries
Canton spans about 520 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 | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,320 ft405 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 800 ft245 m |
| Average of all land | 990 ft300 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Canton.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Buffalo County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 250 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.8 sq mi
- Density
- 7.0 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.5652° N, 91.8218° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Chippewa River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 3
- 54736 54755 54756
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Canton1,030 ft
- Maxville980 ft
- Albany, Pepin County920 ft
- Modena910 ft
- Town of Mondovi890 ft
- Lima, Pepin County880 ft
- Gilmanton870 ft
- Peru840 ft
- Town of Durand810 ft
- Mondovi810 ft
- Durand790 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin776th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Buffalo County7th highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Eagle Peak1,300 ft
- Tom Mountain1,190 ft
- Waubeek Mound1,140 ft
- Round Hill980 ft
- Eau Galle Mound780 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.