Douglas County, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,370 ft 415 m1,170 ft 360 m1,080 ft 330 m880 ft 270 m690 ft 210 m590 ft 180 m
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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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Douglas County averages about 1,060 ft (320 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 590 ft on the northwest side to 1,370 ft on the east side.
Average elevation
1,060 ft 320 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,370 ft 415 m
on the east side
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the northwest side
Douglas County spans about 780 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,060 ft320 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the east side | 1,370 ft415 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 590 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
41 mi south to north through Superior.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 44,276 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,304.3 sq mi + 175.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 34 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Great Lakes 54%, Gulf of America 46%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Lake County, MN1,570 ft
- St. Louis County, MN1,380 ft
- Carlton County, MN1,190 ft
- Washburn County1,170 ft
- Bayfield County1,110 ft
- Pine County, MN1,070 ft
- Douglas County1,060 ft
- Burnett County990 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Wisconsin24th highest of 71
- Counties in the United States1,311th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Pikes Peak, Douglas County1,320 ft
- Sugar Camp Hill1,250 ft
All 24 towns in Douglas County by typical elevation
- Town of Highland1,200 ft
- Town of Summit1,200 ft
- Bennett1,190 ft
- Hawthorne1,160 ft
- Lake Nebagamon1,150 ft
- Dairyland1,120 ft
- Gordon1,110 ft
- Solon Springs1,110 ft
- Oakland, Douglas County1,110 ft
- Village of Solon Springs1,080 ft
- Wascott1,060 ft
- Brule, Douglas County1,060 ft
- Maple1,060 ft
- Gordon, Douglas County1,040 ft
- Brule1,040 ft
- Poplar1,020 ft
- Amnicon950 ft
- Cloverland, Douglas County780 ft
- Town of Superior780 ft
- Parkland750 ft
- Lakeside720 ft
- Village of Superior670 ft
- Oliver660 ft
- Superior640 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.