Wales, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,100 ft 335 m1,030 ft 315 m1,000 ft 305 m930 ft 285 m860 ft 265 m830 ft 255 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
Wales sits at about 1,000 ft (305 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,000 ft 305 m
most residents: 980–1,050 ft
Lowest
830 ft 255 m
on the east side
Highest
1,100 ft 335 m
on the southeast side
Average
990 ft 305 m
all land inside village limits
Wales spans about 270 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 | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the southeast side | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the east side | 830 ft255 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wales | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Airport (UES) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.6 mi east of the village limits | 912 ft278 m |
| Average of all land | 990 ft305 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 2,913 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.2 sq mi
- Density
- 903 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.0045° N, 88.3768° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Rock River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Waukesha County (UES) 912 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 53183
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wales1,000 ft
- Delafield990 ft
- North Prairie970 ft
- Genesee960 ft
- Hartland950 ft
- Nashotah940 ft
- City of Delafield930 ft
- Village of Waukesha880 ft
- Ottawa880 ft
- Summit880 ft
- Dousman860 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin861st highest of 2,049
- Towns in Waukesha Countyhighest of 38
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- 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.