Sussex, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,070 ft 325 m1,020 ft 310 m990 ft 300 m940 ft 285 m880 ft 270 m860 ft 260 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sussex sits at about 940 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
940 ft 285 m
most residents: 900–990 ft
Lowest
860 ft 260 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the west side
Average
940 ft 285 m
all land inside village limits
Sussex spans about 210 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 | 940 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the west side | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southeast side | 860 ft260 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sussex | 920 ft280 m |
| Airport (UES) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.5 mi south of the village limits | 912 ft278 m |
| Average of all land | 940 ft285 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 12,607 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.4 sq mi
- Density
- 1,493 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.1339° N, 88.2220° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Fox River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Waukesha County (UES) 912 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 53089
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lisbon980 ft
- Village of Merton980 ft
- Merton960 ft
- Hartland950 ft
- Sussex940 ft
- North Lake930 ft
- Lannon880 ft
- Village of Pewaukee870 ft
- Pewaukee870 ft
- Town of Brookfield870 ft
- Menomonee Falls840 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,096th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Waukesha County11th highest of 38
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Holy Hill1,350 ft
- Fox Hill1,240 ft
- Lapham Hill1,230 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 village 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.