Lafayette, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,180 ft 360 m1,090 ft 335 m1,050 ft 320 m970 ft 295 m890 ft 270 m850 ft 260 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
Lafayette sits at about 930 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
930 ft 285 m
most residents: 920–970 ft
Lowest
850 ft 260 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,180 ft 360 m
on the south side
Average
960 ft 295 m
all land inside town boundaries
Lafayette spans about 330 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 | 930 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 850 ft260 m |
| Airport (EAU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.7 mi west of the town boundaries | 913 ft278 m |
| Average of all land | 960 ft295 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.1 mi south to north through the middle of Lafayette.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Chippewa County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 6,405 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.5 sq mi + 4.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 186 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.9201° N, 91.2969° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Chippewa River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Chippewa Valley Regional (EAU) 913 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 54727 54729
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Goetz1,040 ft
- Cadott990 ft
- Sigel980 ft
- Jim Falls950 ft
- Eagle Point950 ft
- Anson940 ft
- Hallie940 ft
- Lafayette930 ft
- Lake Wissota930 ft
- Chippewa Falls910 ft
- Lake Hallie900 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,128th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Chippewa County31st highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Moldenhauer Hill1,150 ft
- Mount Tom, Eau Claire County1,020 ft
- Mount Washington1,010 ft
- Mount Simon960 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).
- 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.