Nelson, WI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,290 ft 390 m1,130 ft 345 m1,050 ft 320 m900 ft 275 m740 ft 225 m670 ft 205 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Nelson sits at about 980 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

980 ft 300 m

most residents: 730–1,200 ft

Lowest

670 ft 205 m

on the south side

Highest

1,290 ft 390 m

on the southeast side

Average

910 ft 280 m

all land inside town boundaries

Nelson spans about 620 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	980 ft300 m
Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side	1,290 ft390 m
Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side	670 ft205 m
Average of all land	910 ft280 m

Elevation profile, south to north

9.9 mi south to north through the middle of Nelson.

Topographic Map

Location: Town in Buffalo County, Wisconsin, United States
Population: 581 2024 est.
Land area: 67.9 sq mi + 9.7 sq mi water
Density: 8.6 per sq mi
Coordinates: 44.4577° N, 91.9734° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Mississippi River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 3: 54610 54736 54756

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Wisconsin923rd highest of 2,049
Towns in Buffalo County8th highest of 25

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Farm Hill1,180 ft
Nerike Hill1,160 ft
Ganoe Hill1,150 ft
Seine Hill1,080 ft
Notch Hill1,060 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.