Alto, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m1,010 ft 305 m990 ft 300 m950 ft 290 m900 ft 275 m880 ft 270 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
Alto sits at about 960 ft (290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
960 ft 290 m
most residents: 900–980 ft
Lowest
880 ft 270 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the northwest side
Average
950 ft 290 m
all land inside town boundaries
Alto spans about 170 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 | 960 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 880 ft270 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Alto | 950 ft290 m |
| Average of all land | 950 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 1,049 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.0 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 29 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.6767° N, 88.7951° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Rock River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 3
- 53919 53946 53963
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Metomen1,010 ft
- Brandon1,000 ft
- Mackford960 ft
- Fairwater960 ft
- Fox Lake960 ft
- Alto960 ft
- Alto, Fond du Lac County940 ft
- Springvale930 ft
- Chester920 ft
- Town of Waupun910 ft
- Waupun910 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,022nd highest of 2,049
- Towns in Fond du Lac County15th highest of 36
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Scott Hill1,020 ft
- Spaulding Hill970 ft
- Shaw Hill910 ft
- Juniper Hill910 ft
- Pools Hill900 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 840 ft at 43.6410° N, 88.7738° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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. All public domain.