Appleton, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
910 ft 280 m860 ft 260 m830 ft 255 m780 ft 240 m730 ft 220 m700 ft 215 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Appleton sits at about 790 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
790 ft 240 m
most residents: 750–820 ft
Lowest
700 ft 215 m
on the east side
Highest
910 ft 280 m
on the northeast side
Average
790 ft 240 m
all land inside city limits
Appleton spans about 210 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 | 790 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 910 ft280 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 700 ft215 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Appleton | 790 ft240 m |
| Airport (ATW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.4 mi west of the city limits | 918 ft280 m |
| Average of all land | 790 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Outagamie, Calumet and Winnebago counties, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 75,344 2024 est.
- Land area
- 25.7 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,931 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.2619° N, 88.4154° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Appleton International (ATW) 918 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 54911 54913 54914 54915
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Harrison790 ft
- Grand Chute790 ft
- Appleton790 ft
- Fox Crossing770 ft
- Menasha760 ft
- Neenah760 ft
- Town of Harrison750 ft
- Buchanan740 ft
- Kimberly740 ft
- Little Chute730 ft
- Combined Locks720 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,719th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Outagamie County16th highest of 32
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mosquito Hill970 ft
- Turney Hill920 ft
- Gopher Hill740 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 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.