Tainter, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,250 ft 380 m1,150 ft 350 m1,110 ft 335 m1,010 ft 310 m920 ft 280 m870 ft 265 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
Tainter sits at about 900 ft (275 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
900 ft 275 m
most residents: 880–960 ft
Lowest
870 ft 265 m
on the north side
Highest
1,250 ft 380 m
on the northeast side
Average
940 ft 285 m
all land inside town boundaries
Tainter spans about 380 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 | 900 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 870 ft265 m |
| Airport (LUM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.6 mi south of the town boundaries | 895 ft273 m |
| Average of all land | 940 ft285 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the middle of Tainter.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Dunn County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 2,684 2024 est.
- Land area
- 32.9 sq mi + 2.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 82 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.9767° N, 91.8502° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Chippewa River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Menomonie Municipal/Score Field (LUM) 895 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 54730 54751
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sherman, Dunn County1,040 ft
- Otter Creek1,030 ft
- Colfax1,010 ft
- Hay River980 ft
- Elk Mound970 ft
- Wheeler960 ft
- Village of Colfax950 ft
- Red Cedar900 ft
- Tainter900 ft
- Tainter Lake900 ft
- Menomonie880 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,247th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Dunn County24th highest of 33
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Otteson Bluff1,260 ft
- Elk Mound1,241 ft
- Panther Hill1,160 ft
- The Pinnacle, Dunn County1,120 ft
- Hanke Hill1,110 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.