Germantown, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m970 ft 295 m940 ft 285 m870 ft 265 m800 ft 245 m760 ft 230 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Germantown sits at about 870 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
870 ft 265 m
most residents: 850–910 ft
Lowest
760 ft 230 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the west side
Average
880 ft 270 m
all land inside village limits
Germantown spans about 290 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 | 870 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the west side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southeast side | 760 ft230 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Germantown | 860 ft265 m |
| Airport (MWC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi southeast of the village limits | 745 ft227 m |
| Average of all land | 880 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Washington County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 21,032 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.4 sq mi
- Density
- 612 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.2286° N, 88.1104° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Lawrence J Timmerman (MWC) 745 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 53017 53022 53076
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Richfield1,040 ft
- Town of Germantown920 ft
- Lannon880 ft
- Town of Jackson880 ft
- Jackson880 ft
- Germantown870 ft
- Town of Cedarburg860 ft
- Menomonee Falls840 ft
- Cedarburg810 ft
- Mequon690 ft
- Thiensville680 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,395th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Washington Countylowest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Holy Hill1,350 ft
- Fox Hill1,240 ft
- Lapham Hill1,230 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 village 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, 760 ft at 43.2013° N, 88.0649° 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 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.