Marathon County, WI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,920 ft 585 m1,720 ft 525 m1,610 ft 490 m1,410 ft 430 m1,200 ft 365 m1,100 ft 335 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
County area: Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Marathon County averages about 1,300 ft (395 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,100 ft on the southeast side to 1,923 ft on Rib Mountain.

Average elevation

1,300 ft 395 m

all land inside the county

Highest

1,923 ft 586 m

on Rib Mountain

Lowest

1,100 ft 335 m

on the southeast side

Marathon County spans about 820 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	1,300 ft395 m
Highest point Inside the county, on Rib Mountain (NGS survey height)	1,923 ft586 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side	1,100 ft335 m

Elevation profile, south to north

30 mi south to north through Wausau.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Wisconsin, United States
Population: 139,091 2024 est.
Land area: 1,545.2 sq mi + 31.1 sq mi water
Density: 90 per sq mi
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform regions: Central Lowland 64%, Superior Upland 36%
Drains to: Gulf of America 88%, Great Lakes 13%

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Langlade County1,530 ft
Lincoln County1,470 ft
Taylor County1,390 ft
Marathon County1,300 ft
Clark County1,160 ft
Portage County1,120 ft
Wood County1,080 ft
Shawano County980 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Wisconsin11th highest of 71
Counties in the United States1,001st highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Rib Mountain1,923 ft
Mosinee Hill1,600 ft
Blackberry Hill1,340 ft
Maple Hill, Marathon County1,210 ft
Smoky Hill, Marathon County1,150 ft

All 62 towns in Marathon County by typical elevation

Town of Hewitt1,440 ft
Bern1,440 ft
Town of Harrison1,440 ft
Dorchester partly1,430 ft
Johnson1,420 ft
Holton1,410 ft
Abbotsford partly1,410 ft
Rietbrock1,400 ft
Athens1,390 ft
Halsey1,380 ft
Town of Berlin1,380 ft
Hamburg, Marathon County1,370 ft
Town of Plover1,370 ft
Town of Wausau1,370 ft
Colby partly1,360 ft
Village of Unity1,350 ft
Wien1,340 ft
Easton1,340 ft
Hull, Marathon County1,340 ft
Frankfort1,330 ft
Maine1,330 ft
Texas1,320 ft
Cassel1,320 ft
Brighton, Marathon County1,320 ft
Birnamwood partly1,310 ft
Spencer1,310 ft
Eau Pleine, Marathon County1,310 ft
Rib Falls1,300 ft
Norrie1,300 ft
Fenwood1,300 ft
Town of Spencer1,290 ft
Marathon City1,280 ft
Marathon1,280 ft
Hatley1,280 ft
Ringle1,270 ft
McMillan1,270 ft
Edgar1,260 ft
Stettin1,260 ft
Marshfield partly1,260 ft
Stratford1,260 ft
Emmet, Marathon County1,250 ft
Reid1,250 ft
Elderon1,240 ft
Town of Weston1,240 ft
Day1,240 ft
Town of Cleveland1,220 ft
Bevent1,220 ft
Weston1,210 ft
Wausau1,210 ft
Guenther1,200 ft
Rib Mountain1,200 ft
Village of Elderon1,190 ft
Kronenwetter1,190 ft
Rothschild1,190 ft
Franzen1,180 ft
Schofield1,180 ft
Town of Mosinee1,180 ft
Green Valley, Marathon County1,170 ft
Mosinee1,150 ft
Bergen, Marathon County1,150 ft
Knowlton1,140 ft
Knowlton, Marathon County1,130 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
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, 1,010 ft at 44.7660° N, 89.7049° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
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.