Town of Platteville, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,130 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
Town of Platteville sits at about 950 ft (290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
950 ft 290 m
most residents: 890–1,000 ft
Lowest
650 ft 200 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,130 ft 345 m
on the northeast side
Average
950 ft 290 m
all land inside town boundaries
Town of Platteville spans about 480 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 | 950 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 650 ft200 m |
| Airport (PVB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.2 mi southeast of the town boundaries | 1,025 ft312 m |
| Average of all land | 950 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Town of Platteville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Grant County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 1,543 2024 est.
- Land area
- 30.1 sq mi
- Density
- 51 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.7390° N, 90.5009° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Platteville Municipal (PVB) 1,025 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 53818
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rewey1,130 ft
- Town of Belmont1,070 ft
- Belmont1,050 ft
- Lima, Grant County1,030 ft
- Elk Grove990 ft
- Platteville960 ft
- Smelser950 ft
- Town of Platteville950 ft
- Ellenboro930 ft
- Town of Harrison900 ft
- Paris, Grant County830 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,027th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Grant County30th highest of 55
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Platte Mounds1,440 ft
- Belmont Mound1,400 ft
- Little Mound1,280 ft
- White Hill1,250 ft
- Sinsinawa Mound1,160 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 650 ft at 42.6824° N, 90.5413° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.