West Salem, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,010 ft 310 m930 ft 285 m880 ft 270 m800 ft 245 m710 ft 215 m670 ft 205 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
West Salem sits at about 740 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
740 ft 225 m
most residents: 730–750 ft
Lowest
670 ft 205 m
on the west side
Highest
1,010 ft 310 m
on the south side
Average
750 ft 230 m
all land inside village limits
West Salem spans about 340 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 | 740 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the south side | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the west side | 670 ft205 m |
| Town center USGS map point for West Salem | 740 ft225 m |
| Airport (LSE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.6 mi west of the village limits | 655 ft200 m |
| Average of all land | 750 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 5,306 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.3 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,584 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.8991° N, 91.0812° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- La Crosse Regional (LSE) 655 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 54669
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- St. Joseph, La Crosse County1,270 ft
- Town of Bangor910 ft
- Burns900 ft
- Medary820 ft
- Barre820 ft
- Mindoro780 ft
- Hamilton770 ft
- Village of Rockland760 ft
- West Salem740 ft
- Bangor740 ft
- Onalaska720 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,852nd highest of 2,049
- Towns in La Crosse County13th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Krueger Hill1,360 ft
- Heller Hill1,350 ft
- Sugarloaf1,120 ft
- Camel Hump1,110 ft
- Moss Hill1,050 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.