Lafayette, Monroe County, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,330 ft 405 m1,190 ft 365 m1,130 ft 345 m1,000 ft 305 m870 ft 265 m800 ft 245 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, Monroe County sits at about 920 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
920 ft 280 m
most residents: 840–1,120 ft
Lowest
800 ft 245 m
on the south side
Highest
1,330 ft 405 m
on the west side
Average
930 ft 285 m
all land inside town boundaries
Lafayette, Monroe County spans about 530 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 | 920 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 1,330 ft405 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 800 ft245 m |
| Airport (CMY) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.9 mi south of the town boundaries | 839 ft256 m |
| Average of all land | 930 ft285 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.9 mi south to north through the middle of Lafayette, Monroe County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Monroe County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 382 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.3 sq mi
- Density
- 11 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.0068° N, 90.7366° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- La Crosse River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Sparta/Fort Mc Coy (CMY) 839 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 54656 54660
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wells1,210 ft
- Adrian1,150 ft
- Town of Greenfield1,100 ft
- Tunnel City1,060 ft
- New Lyme1,040 ft
- Lafayette, Monroe County920 ft
- Little Falls900 ft
- Angelo860 ft
- Cataract850 ft
- Town of Sparta850 ft
- Sparta790 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,182nd highest of 2,049
- Towns in Monroe County30th highest of 36
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Selfridge Knoll1,160 ft
- Perry Peak1,130 ft
- Hill H1,130 ft
- Quarry Hill1,100 ft
- Thorp Hill1,050 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).
- 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.