Marathon, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,620 ft 495 m1,510 ft 460 m1,450 ft 440 m1,340 ft 405 m1,220 ft 370 m1,160 ft 355 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Marathon sits at about 1,280 ft (390 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,280 ft 390 m
most residents: 1,200–1,340 ft
Lowest
1,160 ft 355 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,620 ft 495 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,270 ft 385 m
all land inside town boundaries
Marathon spans about 460 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 | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,620 ft495 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,160 ft355 m |
| Airport (CWA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.3 mi southeast of the town boundaries | 1,277 ft389 m |
| Average of all land | 1,270 ft385 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.8 mi west to east through the middle of Marathon.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 978 2024 est.
- Land area
- 32.7 sq mi
- Density
- 30 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.8943° N, 89.7780° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wisconsin River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Central Wisconsin (CWA) 1,277 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 54401 54448 54455
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cassel1,320 ft
- Rib Falls1,300 ft
- Marathon City1,280 ft
- Marathon1,280 ft
- Stettin1,260 ft
- Emmet, Marathon County1,250 ft
- Wausau1,210 ft
- Rib Mountain1,200 ft
- Rothschild1,190 ft
- Town of Mosinee1,180 ft
- Mosinee1,150 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin274th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Marathon County29th highest of 57
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Rib Mountain1,923 ft
- Mosinee Hill1,600 ft
- Maple Hill, Marathon County1,210 ft
- Haumschild Hill1,170 ft
- Smoky Hill, Marathon County1,150 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.