Excelsior, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,240 ft 375 m1,130 ft 345 m1,080 ft 330 m970 ft 295 m860 ft 265 m810 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
Excelsior sits at about 920 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
920 ft 280 m
most residents: 890–1,120 ft
Lowest
810 ft 245 m
on the south side
Highest
1,240 ft 375 m
on the southeast side
Average
960 ft 290 m
all land inside town boundaries
Excelsior spans about 430 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 | 920 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,240 ft375 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 810 ft245 m |
| Airport (C35) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.4 mi west of the town boundaries | 906 ft276 m |
| Average of all land | 960 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the middle of Excelsior.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 1,615 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.6 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 48 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.5215° N, 89.8989° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Baraboo River → Wisconsin River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Reedsburg Municipal (C35) 906 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 53913 53951 53959 53961
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Freedom, Sauk County1,060 ft
- Winfield1,020 ft
- Delton950 ft
- Town of Reedsburg950 ft
- Dellona940 ft
- Excelsior920 ft
- Reedsburg910 ft
- Lake Delton900 ft
- West Baraboo900 ft
- Rock Springs890 ft
- North Freedom880 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,161st highest of 2,049
- Towns in Sauk County18th highest of 38
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Thieman Hill1,220 ft
- Rattlesnake Knob1,220 ft
- Haystack Hills1,200 ft
- Diamond Hill1,080 ft
- Devils Chair960 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.