La Crosse, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,280 ft 390 m1,120 ft 340 m1,040 ft 315 m870 ft 265 m710 ft 215 m630 ft 190 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
La Crosse sits at about 670 ft (205 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
670 ft 205 m
most residents: 650–680 ft
Lowest
630 ft 190 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,280 ft 390 m
on the northeast side
Average
710 ft 215 m
all land inside city limits
La Crosse spans about 650 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 | 670 ft205 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 630 ft190 m |
| Town center USGS map point for La Crosse | 670 ft205 m |
| Airport (LSE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 655 ft200 m |
| Average of all land | 710 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 51,049 2024 est.
- Land area
- 21.7 sq mi + 2.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,349 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.8014° N, 91.2396° 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 3
- 54601 54603 54650
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- La Crescent Township, MN920 ft
- Hokah Township, MN900 ft
- Shelby860 ft
- Medary820 ft
- Barre820 ft
- Onalaska720 ft
- Hokah, MN710 ft
- La Crescent, MN690 ft
- La Crosse670 ft
- French Island650 ft
- Campbell650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,972nd highest of 2,049
- Towns in La Crosse County19th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Krueger Hill1,360 ft
- Heller Hill1,350 ft
- Bunker Hill, Vernon County1,210 ft
- Sugarloaf1,120 ft
- Camel Hump1,110 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.