Merrimac, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,550 ft 475 m1,360 ft 415 m1,260 ft 385 m1,070 ft 325 m870 ft 265 m770 ft 235 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
Merrimac sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 810–890 ft
Lowest
770 ft 235 m
near the middle
Highest
1,550 ft 475 m
on the north side
Average
950 ft 290 m
all land inside town boundaries
Merrimac spans about 780 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 1,550 ft475 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, near the middle | 770 ft235 m |
| Average of all land | 950 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.3 mi south to north through the middle of Merrimac.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 1,300 2024 est.
- Land area
- 24.2 sq mi + 2.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 54 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.3685° N, 89.6660° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wisconsin River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 53561 53913
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Town of Greenfield1,090 ft
- City of Lodi870 ft
- Bluffview860 ft
- Sumpter860 ft
- West Point860 ft
- Merrimac850 ft
- Lodi830 ft
- Lake Wisconsin830 ft
- Village of Merrimac800 ft
- Prairie du Sac780 ft
- Sauk City760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,509th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Sauk County30th highest of 38
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sauk Point1,590 ft
- Sauk Hill1,460 ft
- Round Top Hill1,130 ft
- Goose Egg Hill1,120 ft
- Owls Head Hill1,040 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.