La Prairie, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
980 ft 300 m930 ft 285 m910 ft 275 m850 ft 260 m800 ft 245 m780 ft 235 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
La Prairie sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 800–920 ft
Lowest
780 ft 235 m
on the northwest side
Highest
980 ft 300 m
on the east side
Average
860 ft 265 m
all land inside town boundaries
La Prairie spans about 200 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 980 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 780 ft235 m |
| Airport (JVL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.5 mi west of the town boundaries | 808 ft246 m |
| Average of all land | 860 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of La Prairie.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Rock County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 780 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.5 sq mi
- Density
- 23 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.6273° N, 88.9629° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Rock River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Southern Wisconsin Regional (JVL) 808 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 53511 53546
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Clinton970 ft
- Town of Clinton950 ft
- Harmony920 ft
- Bradford920 ft
- Town of Janesville890 ft
- Shopiere870 ft
- Janesville860 ft
- La Prairie850 ft
- Turtle820 ft
- Town of Beloit790 ft
- Rock780 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,508th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Rock County20th highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Zion1,050 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, 770 ft at 42.5885° N, 89.0099° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.