Forest, Vernon County, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,390 ft 425 m1,260 ft 385 m1,190 ft 365 m1,060 ft 325 m930 ft 285 m870 ft 265 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
Forest, Vernon County sits at about 1,250 ft (380 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,250 ft 380 m
most residents: 1,120–1,330 ft
Lowest
870 ft 265 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,390 ft 425 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,190 ft 365 m
all land inside town boundaries
Forest, Vernon County 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 | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,390 ft425 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 870 ft265 m |
| Average of all land | 1,190 ft365 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Forest, Vernon County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Vernon County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 640 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.9 sq mi
- Density
- 18 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.6713° N, 90.4954° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Kickapoo River → Wisconsin River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 4
- 54634 54638 54639 54651
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wellington1,290 ft
- Forest, Vernon County1,250 ft
- Town of Greenwood1,240 ft
- Union, Vernon County1,190 ft
- Sheldon1,190 ft
- Stark1,090 ft
- Town of Hillsboro1,080 ft
- Whitestown1,050 ft
- Hillsboro990 ft
- Ontario910 ft
- Yuba860 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin309th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Vernon County3rd highest of 32
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Thom1,310 ft
- Pikes Peak, Vernon County1,280 ft
- Wildcat Mountain1,270 ft
- Mount Sally1,250 ft
- Mount Pisgah, Vernon County1,210 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 870 ft at 43.6468° N, 90.5512° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.