Waterloo, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
980 ft 300 m930 ft 285 m910 ft 275 m860 ft 260 m810 ft 250 m790 ft 240 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Waterloo sits at about 840 ft (255 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
840 ft 255 m
most residents: 810–890 ft
Lowest
790 ft 240 m
on the northeast side
Highest
980 ft 300 m
on the southwest side
Average
840 ft 260 m
all land inside city limits
Waterloo spans about 190 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 | 840 ft255 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 980 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 790 ft240 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Waterloo | 810 ft250 m |
| Average of all land | 840 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 3,611 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 952 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.1839° N, 88.9884° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Rock River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 53594
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- York, Dane County900 ft
- Town of Deerfield890 ft
- Medina870 ft
- Marshall860 ft
- Town of Lake Mills850 ft
- Waterloo840 ft
- Lake Mills840 ft
- Town of Waterloo830 ft
- Portland830 ft
- Shields, Dodge County820 ft
- Milford810 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,531st highest of 2,049
- Towns in Jefferson County13th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Liberty Mound1,075 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.