Town of Prairie du Chien, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,220 ft 370 m1,070 ft 325 m990 ft 300 m840 ft 255 m690 ft 210 m610 ft 185 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Town of Prairie du Chien sits at about 800 ft (245 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
800 ft 245 m
most residents: 630–1,130 ft
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,220 ft 370 m
on the east side
Average
960 ft 295 m
all land inside town boundaries
Town of Prairie du Chien spans about 610 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 | 800 ft245 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 1,220 ft370 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 610 ft185 m |
| Airport (PDC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.9 mi south of the town boundaries | 660 ft201 m |
| Average of all land | 960 ft295 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.8 mi west to east through the middle of Town of Prairie du Chien.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Crawford County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 925 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.5 sq mi + 3.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 28 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.0648° N, 91.1164° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Prairie Du Chien Municipal (PDC) 660 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 53821
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Village of Eastman1,150 ft
- Eastman1,020 ft
- Millville940 ft
- Wyalusing940 ft
- Town of Wauzeka890 ft
- McGregor, IA830 ft
- Marquette, IA820 ft
- Town of Prairie du Chien800 ft
- Bridgeport760 ft
- Harpers Ferry, IA650 ft
- Prairie du Chien640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,686th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Crawford County16th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mondell Hill1,150 ft
- Pine Knob, Grant County1,110 ft
- Pine Knob, Grant County1,090 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.