Cottage Grove, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,040 ft 320 m1,000 ft 305 m970 ft 295 m930 ft 280 m880 ft 270 m860 ft 260 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Cottage Grove sits at about 910 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
910 ft 280 m
most residents: 890–960 ft
Lowest
860 ft 260 m
on the west side
Highest
1,040 ft 320 m
on the north side
Average
920 ft 280 m
all land inside village limits
Cottage Grove 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 | 910 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the north side | 1,040 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the west side | 860 ft260 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cottage Grove | 890 ft270 m |
| Airport (MSN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.9 mi northwest of the village limits | 887 ft270 m |
| Average of all land | 920 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 8,974 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.7 sq mi
- Density
- 1,894 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.0761° N, 89.1996° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Rock River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Dane County Regional/Truax Field (MSN) 887 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 53527 53590
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sun Prairie980 ft
- Burke960 ft
- Town of Sun Prairie940 ft
- Town of Cottage Grove910 ft
- Cottage Grove910 ft
- McFarland890 ft
- Town of Deerfield890 ft
- Blooming Grove880 ft
- Pleasant Springs880 ft
- Deerfield880 ft
- Monona870 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,198th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Dane County31st highest of 59
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Liberty Mound1,075 ft
- Eagle Heights1,020 ft
- Bascom Hill960 ft
- Observatory Hill, Dane County960 ft
- Mansion Hill930 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 village 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.