Orion, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,140 ft 345 m1,010 ft 310 m950 ft 290 m830 ft 255 m710 ft 215 m650 ft 200 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
Orion 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: 710–1,010 ft
Lowest
650 ft 200 m
near the middle
Highest
1,140 ft 345 m
on the northeast side
Average
890 ft 270 m
all land inside town boundaries
Orion spans about 490 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 northeast side | 1,140 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, near the middle | 650 ft200 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Orion | 720 ft220 m |
| Airport (93C) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.6 mi northeast of the town boundaries | 742 ft226 m |
| Average of all land | 890 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Richland County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 541 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.8 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 15 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.2030° N, 90.4279° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wisconsin River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Richland (93C) 742 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 53556 53573 53581
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Town of Pulaski940 ft
- Eagle, Richland County860 ft
- Orion850 ft
- Richwood760 ft
- Sextonville730 ft
- Buena Vista710 ft
- Gotham700 ft
- Avoca700 ft
- Town of Muscoda690 ft
- Muscoda690 ft
- Blue River670 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,471st highest of 2,049
- Towns in Richland County16th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cribben Hill1,140 ft
- Pine Hill1,120 ft
- Pauls Hill1,080 ft
- Bigelow Hill1,080 ft
- Cooper Hill970 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.