Lima, Grant County, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,160 ft 355 m1,080 ft 330 m1,040 ft 320 m960 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
Lima, Grant County sits at about 1,030 ft (315 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,030 ft 315 m
most residents: 950–1,080 ft
Lowest
850 ft 260 m
on the south side
Highest
1,160 ft 355 m
on the east side
Average
1,010 ft 310 m
all land inside town boundaries
Lima, Grant County spans about 310 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 | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 1,160 ft355 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 850 ft260 m |
| Airport (PVB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.5 mi south of the town boundaries | 1,025 ft312 m |
| Average of all land | 1,010 ft310 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Lima, Grant County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Grant County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 774 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.4 sq mi
- Density
- 21 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.8105° N, 90.4922° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Platteville Municipal (PVB) 1,025 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 53554 53818
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Livingston1,140 ft
- Rewey1,130 ft
- Mifflin1,080 ft
- Clifton, Grant County1,080 ft
- Town of Belmont1,070 ft
- Liberty, Grant County1,050 ft
- Lima, Grant County1,030 ft
- Platteville960 ft
- Town of Platteville950 ft
- Ellenboro930 ft
- Town of Harrison900 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin797th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Grant County14th highest of 55
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Platte Mounds1,440 ft
- Belmont Mound1,400 ft
- Little Mound1,280 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.