Melrose, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
860 ft 260 m830 ft 250 m810 ft 245 m770 ft 235 m740 ft 225 m720 ft 220 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Melrose sits at about 780 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
780 ft 240 m
most residents: 750–790 ft
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the southeast side
Highest
860 ft 260 m
on the east side
Average
780 ft 235 m
all land inside village limits
Melrose spans about 140 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 | 780 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the east side | 860 ft260 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southeast side | 720 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Melrose | 780 ft240 m |
| Average of all land | 780 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Jackson County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 525 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 655 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.1305° N, 90.9982° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Black River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 54642
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Town of Franklin1,050 ft
- New Lyme1,040 ft
- Albion, Jackson County960 ft
- Little Falls900 ft
- Irving880 ft
- Farmington, La Crosse County870 ft
- Cataract850 ft
- North Bend830 ft
- Town of Melrose820 ft
- Melrose780 ft
- Mindoro780 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,740th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Jackson Countylowest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Twin Peaks1,300 ft
- Hippler Hill1,260 ft
- Sugar Loaf1,090 ft
- Cuffy Knob980 ft
- Maiden Rock830 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.