Altoona, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m980 ft 300 m940 ft 290 m880 ft 265 m810 ft 245 m780 ft 235 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
Altoona sits at about 890 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
890 ft 270 m
most residents: 840–970 ft
Lowest
780 ft 235 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the east side
Average
890 ft 270 m
all land inside city limits
Altoona 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 | 890 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 780 ft235 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Altoona | 890 ft270 m |
| Airport (EAU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.2 mi northwest of the city limits | 913 ft278 m |
| Average of all land | 890 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 9,302 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.2 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,804 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.8047° N, 91.4432° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Chippewa River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Chippewa Valley Regional (EAU) 913 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 54701 54720
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pleasant Valley960 ft
- Hallie940 ft
- Wheaton940 ft
- Union900 ft
- Lake Hallie900 ft
- Town of Seymour900 ft
- Washington900 ft
- Altoona890 ft
- Eau Claire880 ft
- Brunswick880 ft
- Seymour, Eau Claire County870 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,308th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Eau Claire County16th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Elk Mound1,241 ft
- Moldenhauer Hill1,150 ft
- Mount Tom, Eau Claire County1,020 ft
- Mount Washington1,010 ft
- Mount Simon960 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).
- 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, 780 ft at 44.8143° N, 91.4674° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.