Cataract, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
930 ft 285 m900 ft 275 m880 ft 270 m840 ft 255 m810 ft 245 m790 ft 240 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Cataract sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 840–880 ft
Lowest
790 ft 240 m
on the west side
Highest
930 ft 285 m
on the southeast side
Average
850 ft 260 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Cataract spans about 140 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 930 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 790 ft240 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cataract | 850 ft260 m |
| Average of all land | 850 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Monroe County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 220 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 370 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.0877° N, 90.8424° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Black River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 54656
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- New Lyme1,040 ft
- Lafayette, Monroe County920 ft
- Little Falls900 ft
- Irving880 ft
- Manchester, Jackson County880 ft
- Angelo860 ft
- Cataract850 ft
- Town of Sparta850 ft
- Town of Melrose820 ft
- Sparta790 ft
- Melrose780 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,488th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Monroe County34th highest of 36
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Wadels Hill1,410 ft
- Wanlass Hill1,370 ft
- Twin Peaks1,300 ft
- Hippler Hill1,260 ft
- Pettinger Hill1,140 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Cataract is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.