Lincoln, Forest County, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,940 ft 590 m1,840 ft 560 m1,790 ft 545 m1,690 ft 515 m1,590 ft 485 m1,550 ft 470 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lincoln, Forest County sits at about 1,660 ft (505 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,660 ft 505 m
most residents: 1,600–1,810 ft
Lowest
1,550 ft 470 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,940 ft 590 m
on Sugarbush Hill
Average
1,670 ft 510 m
all land inside town boundaries
Lincoln, Forest County spans about 390 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 | 1,660 ft505 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Sugarbush Hill | 1,940 ft590 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,550 ft470 m |
| Airport (Y55) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.3 mi southwest of the town boundaries | 1,650 ft503 m |
| Average of all land | 1,670 ft510 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Lincoln, Forest County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Forest County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 1,157 2024 est.
- Land area
- 58.2 sq mi + 4.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 20 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.5496° N, 88.8625° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Wolf River
- Airport
- Crandon/Steve Conway Municipal (Y55) 1,650 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 54511 54520 54541
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lincoln, Forest County1,660 ft
- Town of Crandon1,660 ft
- Hiles1,660 ft
- Argonne1,640 ft
- Argonne, Forest County1,640 ft
- Crandon1,630 ft
- Freedom, Forest County1,600 ft
- Laona, Forest County1,590 ft
- Laona1,590 ft
- Nashville1,570 ft
- Mole Lake1,550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin9th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Forest Countyhighest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sugarbush Hill1,940 ft
- East Hill1,860 ft
- West Hill1,750 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.