McFarland, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
960 ft 290 m930 ft 285 m920 ft 280 m890 ft 270 m860 ft 260 m840 ft 255 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
McFarland sits at about 890 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
890 ft 270 m
most residents: 860–910 ft
Lowest
840 ft 255 m
on the south side
Highest
960 ft 290 m
on the northeast side
Average
880 ft 270 m
all land inside village limits
McFarland spans about 120 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 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northeast side | 960 ft290 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the south side | 840 ft255 m |
| Town center USGS map point for McFarland | 870 ft265 m |
| Airport (MSN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.0 mi north of the village limits | 887 ft270 m |
| Average of all land | 880 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 9,224 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.9 sq mi
- Density
- 1,900 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.0125° N, 89.2898° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Yahara River → Rock River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Dane County Regional/Truax Field (MSN) 887 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 53558
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Oregon970 ft
- Town of Cottage Grove910 ft
- Cottage Grove910 ft
- Madison910 ft
- Stoughton890 ft
- McFarland890 ft
- Maple Bluff890 ft
- Dunn880 ft
- Blooming Grove880 ft
- Pleasant Springs880 ft
- Monona870 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,311th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Dane County40th highest of 59
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Liberty Mound1,075 ft
- Eagle Heights1,020 ft
- Bascom Hill960 ft
- Observatory Hill, Dane County960 ft
- Mansion Hill930 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village limits, 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 village limits (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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.