Colfax, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,300 ft 395 m1,200 ft 365 m1,150 ft 350 m1,040 ft 320 m940 ft 285 m890 ft 270 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
Colfax sits at about 1,010 ft (305 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,010 ft 305 m
most residents: 940–1,090 ft
Lowest
890 ft 270 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,300 ft 395 m
on the east side
Average
1,010 ft 310 m
all land inside town boundaries
Colfax spans about 410 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 | 1,010 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 890 ft270 m |
| Airport (EAU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.7 mi southeast of the town boundaries | 913 ft278 m |
| Average of all land | 1,010 ft310 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Colfax.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Dunn County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 1,252 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.1 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 37 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.9794° N, 91.7209° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Red Cedar River → Chippewa River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Chippewa Valley Regional (EAU) 913 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 54730 54739
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cooks Valley1,090 ft
- Town of Howard1,060 ft
- Grant, Dunn County1,050 ft
- Otter Creek1,030 ft
- Colfax1,010 ft
- Elk Mound970 ft
- Village of Colfax950 ft
- Village of Elk Mound930 ft
- Red Cedar900 ft
- Tainter900 ft
- Tainter Lake900 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin859th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Dunn County13th highest of 33
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Otteson Bluff1,260 ft
- Elk Mound1,241 ft
- Panther Hill1,160 ft
- Hanke Hill1,110 ft
- Mount Simon960 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.