La Crosse County, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,400 ft 425 m1,210 ft 370 m1,110 ft 340 m920 ft 280 m730 ft 220 m630 ft 190 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
La Crosse County averages about 900 ft (275 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 630 ft on the south side to 1,400 ft on the northeast side.
Average elevation
900 ft 275 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,400 ft 425 m
on the northeast side
Lowest
630 ft 190 m
on the south side
La Crosse County spans about 770 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 900 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 1,400 ft425 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 630 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
18 mi west to east through La Crosse.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 121,060 2024 est.
- Land area
- 451.8 sq mi + 28.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 268 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Vernon County1,090 ft
- Winona County, MN1,090 ft
- Monroe County1,050 ft
- Houston County, MN1,010 ft
- Jackson County980 ft
- Trempealeau County930 ft
- La Crosse County900 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Wisconsin51st highest of 71
- Counties in the United States1,593rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Wanlass Hill1,370 ft
- Krueger Hill1,360 ft
- Heller Hill1,350 ft
- Bunker Hill, La Crosse County1,340 ft
- Twin Peaks1,300 ft
All 22 towns in La Crosse County by typical elevation
- St. Joseph, La Crosse County1,270 ft
- Washington, La Crosse County1,240 ft
- Town of Greenfield1,150 ft
- Town of Bangor910 ft
- Burns900 ft
- Farmington, La Crosse County870 ft
- Shelby860 ft
- Medary820 ft
- Barre820 ft
- Mindoro780 ft
- Hamilton770 ft
- Village of Rockland760 ft
- West Salem740 ft
- Bangor740 ft
- Town of Onalaska720 ft
- Holland720 ft
- Holmen720 ft
- Onalaska720 ft
- La Crosse670 ft
- Brice Prairie660 ft
- French Island650 ft
- Campbell650 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.