Galesville, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
880 ft 270 m830 ft 250 m800 ft 245 m750 ft 230 m700 ft 215 m670 ft 205 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Galesville sits at about 750 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
750 ft 225 m
most residents: 700–770 ft
Lowest
670 ft 205 m
on the southwest side
Highest
880 ft 270 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
740 ft 225 m
all land inside city limits
Galesville spans about 210 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 | 750 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 880 ft270 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 670 ft205 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Galesville | 730 ft220 m |
| Airport (LSE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi south of the city limits | 655 ft200 m |
| Average of all land | 740 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 1,663 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.3 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,277 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.0816° N, 91.3490° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- La Crosse Regional (LSE) 655 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 54630
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Richmond Township, MN1,030 ft
- Ettrick940 ft
- Gale810 ft
- Village of Ettrick780 ft
- Pickwick, MN770 ft
- Galesville750 ft
- Town of Caledonia730 ft
- Trempealeau720 ft
- Village of Trempealeau720 ft
- Holland720 ft
- Holmen720 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,841st highest of 2,049
- Towns in Trempealeau County23rd highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Johnson Peak1,240 ft
- Chicken Breast Bluff1,180 ft
- Decorah Mound1,180 ft
- Decorah Peak1,160 ft
- Bald Knob, Trempealeau County1,150 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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. All public domain.