Baraboo, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,130 ft 345 m1,050 ft 320 m1,010 ft 310 m930 ft 285 m850 ft 260 m810 ft 245 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
Baraboo sits at about 890 ft (275 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
890 ft 275 m
most residents: 870–980 ft
Lowest
810 ft 245 m
on the east side
Highest
1,130 ft 345 m
on the north side
Average
910 ft 280 m
all land inside city limits
Baraboo spans about 320 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 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 810 ft245 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Baraboo | 880 ft270 m |
| Airport (DLL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.5 mi north of the city limits | 980 ft299 m |
| Average of all land | 910 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 13,096 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,725 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.4711° N, 89.7443° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wisconsin River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Baraboo/Wisconsin Dells Regional (DLL) 980 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 53913
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Town of Greenfield1,090 ft
- Freedom, Sauk County1,060 ft
- Town of Baraboo980 ft
- Delton950 ft
- Fairfield910 ft
- West Baraboo900 ft
- Baraboo890 ft
- North Freedom880 ft
- Bluffview860 ft
- Sumpter860 ft
- Merrimac850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,286th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Sauk County24th highest of 38
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sauk Point1,590 ft
- Happy Hill1,490 ft
- Sauk Hill1,460 ft
- Diamond Hill1,080 ft
- Devils Chair960 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, 810 ft at 43.4649° N, 89.7104° 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. All public domain.