Chief Lake, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,530 ft 465 m1,470 ft 445 m1,440 ft 440 m1,380 ft 420 m1,320 ft 400 m1,290 ft 390 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Chief Lake sits at about 1,320 ft (400 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,320 ft 400 m
most residents: 1,310–1,430 ft
Lowest
1,290 ft 390 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,530 ft 465 m
on the south side
Average
1,360 ft 415 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Chief Lake spans about 240 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 | 1,320 ft400 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 1,530 ft465 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,290 ft390 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Chief Lake | 1,340 ft405 m |
| Airport (HYR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.7 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 1,216 ft371 m |
| Average of all land | 1,360 ft415 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 582 2020 Census
- Land area
- 21.3 sq mi + 2.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 27 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.9266° N, 91.3329° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Chippewa River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Sawyer County (HYR) 1,216 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 54828 54843 54876
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Round Lake1,370 ft
- Little Round Lake1,360 ft
- New Post1,330 ft
- Hunter1,330 ft
- Bass Lake1,330 ft
- Chief Lake1,320 ft
- Sand Lake1,320 ft
- Couderay1,310 ft
- Reserve1,310 ft
- Village of Couderay1,270 ft
- Hayward1,270 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin229th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Sawyer County12th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Meteor Hill1,800 ft
- Mount Telemark1,700 ft
- County Hill1,390 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Chief Lake is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.