Middleton, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,130 ft 345 m1,060 ft 325 m1,030 ft 315 m960 ft 290 m890 ft 270 m850 ft 260 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Middleton sits at about 930 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
930 ft 285 m
most residents: 870–970 ft
Lowest
850 ft 260 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,130 ft 345 m
on the west side
Average
930 ft 285 m
all land inside city limits
Middleton spans about 280 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 | 930 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 850 ft260 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Middleton | 940 ft285 m |
| Airport (MSN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi east of the city limits | 887 ft270 m |
| Average of all land | 930 ft285 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 22,566 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.5 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,371 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.0972° N, 89.5043° 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 2
- 53562 53597
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Town of Middleton1,090 ft
- Springfield1,020 ft
- Town of Cross Plains1,000 ft
- Verona1,000 ft
- Middleton930 ft
- Waunakee930 ft
- Madison910 ft
- Cross Plains910 ft
- Shorewood Hills900 ft
- Maple Bluff890 ft
- Westport880 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,130th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Dane County27th highest of 59
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Pleasant1,040 ft
- Mount Julia1,030 ft
- Eagle Heights1,020 ft
- Observatory Hill, Dane County960 ft
- Mansion Hill930 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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. All public domain.