Lima, Rock County, WI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
1,000 ft 305 m960 ft 290 m930 ft 285 m890 ft 270 m850 ft 260 m830 ft 250 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, Rock County sits at about 890 ft (275 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
890 ft 275 m
most residents: 870–940 ft
Lowest
830 ft 250 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,000 ft 305 m
on the south side
Average
900 ft 275 m
all land inside town boundaries
Lima, Rock County spans about 170 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 | 890 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 830 ft250 m |
| Average of all land | 900 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the middle of Lima, Rock County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Rock County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 1,281 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.2 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 35 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.8057° N, 88.8149° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Rock River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 3
- 53190 53538 53563
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lake Lorraine960 ft
- Richmond, Walworth County950 ft
- Johnstown950 ft
- Lima, Rock County890 ft
- Milton880 ft
- Town of Whitewater880 ft
- Town of Milton850 ft
- Whitewater840 ft
- Koshkonong820 ft
- Fort Atkinson810 ft
- Cold Spring810 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,284th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Rock County12th 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, 820 ft at 42.8424° N, 88.7857° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.