How, WI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

990 ft 300 m940 ft 285 m910 ft 275 m860 ft 260 m810 ft 245 m780 ft 240 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
Town area: Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).

Elevation Data

How sits at about 860 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

860 ft 260 m

most residents: 800–880 ft

Lowest

780 ft 240 m

on the southeast side

Highest

990 ft 300 m

on the northwest side

Average

850 ft 260 m

all land inside town boundaries

How 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	860 ft260 m
Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side	990 ft300 m
Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side	780 ft240 m
Average of all land	850 ft260 m

Elevation profile, west to east

5.0 mi west to east through the middle of How.

Topographic Map

Location: Town in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States
Population: 525 2024 est.
Land area: 34.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
Density: 15 per sq mi
Coordinates: 44.9994° N, 88.4288° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Oconto River
ZIP codes 2: 54124 54174

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Menominee870 ft
Legend Lake860 ft
Breed860 ft
How860 ft
Town of Bagley850 ft
Maple Valley850 ft
Underhill840 ft
Town of Gillett830 ft
Gillett810 ft
Pulcifer800 ft
Suring800 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Wisconsin1,467th highest of 2,049
Towns in Oconto County10th highest of 33

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Hagar Mountain1,170 ft
Butler Rock1,090 ft
Mount LeBett970 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town boundaries, 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 town boundaries (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, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.