Onalaska, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,260 ft 385 m1,100 ft 335 m1,020 ft 310 m870 ft 265 m710 ft 215 m630 ft 195 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
Onalaska sits at about 720 ft (220 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
720 ft 220 m
most residents: 700–790 ft
Lowest
630 ft 190 m
on the south side
Highest
1,260 ft 385 m
on the east side
Average
750 ft 230 m
all land inside city limits
Onalaska spans about 630 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 | 720 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,260 ft385 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 630 ft190 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Onalaska | 710 ft220 m |
| Airport (LSE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.6 mi west of the city limits | 655 ft200 m |
| Average of all land | 750 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 19,898 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.6 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,869 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.8844° N, 91.2351° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- La Crosse Regional (LSE) 655 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 54650
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Dresbach Township, MN1,050 ft
- Medary820 ft
- Dresbach, MN770 ft
- Town of Onalaska720 ft
- Holmen720 ft
- Onalaska720 ft
- La Crescent, MN690 ft
- La Crosse670 ft
- Brice Prairie660 ft
- French Island650 ft
- Campbell650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,893rd highest of 2,049
- Towns in La Crosse County18th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Krueger Hill1,360 ft
- Sugarloaf1,120 ft
- Camel Hump1,110 ft
- Pine Knob, La Crosse County950 ft
- Cox 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.