Lanark, WI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
1,230 ft 375 m1,150 ft 350 m1,120 ft 340 m1,040 ft 320 m970 ft 295 m930 ft 285 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
Lanark sits at about 1,080 ft (330 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,080 ft 330 m
most residents: 1,000–1,140 ft
Lowest
930 ft 285 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,230 ft 375 m
on the north side
Average
1,070 ft 325 m
all land inside town boundaries
Lanark spans about 300 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 | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 930 ft285 m |
| Average of all land | 1,070 ft325 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Lanark.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 1,547 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.8 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 43 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.3634° N, 89.2747° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- ZIP codes 3
- 54406 54909 54981
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Almond1,160 ft
- Buena Vista, Portage County1,150 ft
- Amherst Junction1,130 ft
- Town of Belmont1,110 ft
- Amherst1,110 ft
- Lanark1,080 ft
- Village of Amherst1,060 ft
- Farmington, Waupaca County920 ft
- Chain O' Lakes910 ft
- King900 ft
- Dayton900 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin644th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Portage County27th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mosquito Bluff1,240 ft
- The Ledge1,150 ft
- Lone Rock1,140 ft
- Mount Morris1,133 ft
- Mount Joel1,010 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 and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.