Tainter Lake, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,060 ft 325 m1,000 ft 305 m980 ft 295 m920 ft 280 m860 ft 265 m830 ft 255 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Tainter Lake 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: 880–950 ft
Lowest
830 ft 255 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,060 ft 325 m
on the northwest side
Average
920 ft 280 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Tainter Lake spans about 230 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 the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 1,060 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 830 ft255 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Tainter Lake | 880 ft265 m |
| Airport (LUM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.1 mi south of the CDP boundary | 895 ft273 m |
| Average of all land | 920 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Dunn County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 2,550 2020 Census
- Land area
- 18.5 sq mi + 2.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 138 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.9891° N, 91.8477° 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
- Grant, Dunn County1,050 ft
- Sherman, Dunn County1,040 ft
- Otter Creek1,030 ft
- Colfax1,010 ft
- Hay River980 ft
- Wheeler960 ft
- Village of Colfax950 ft
- Red Cedar900 ft
- Tainter900 ft
- Tainter Lake900 ft
- Menomonie880 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,254th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Dunn County25th 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 CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Tainter Lake is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.