Oshkosh, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
900 ft 275 m860 ft 260 m840 ft 255 m800 ft 245 m760 ft 235 m750 ft 225 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Oshkosh sits at about 760 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
760 ft 235 m
most residents: 750–790 ft
Lowest
750 ft 225 m
on the northwest side
Highest
900 ft 275 m
on the north side
Average
780 ft 235 m
all land inside city limits
Oshkosh spans about 150 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 | 760 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 900 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 750 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Oshkosh | 770 ft235 m |
| Airport (OSH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 809 ft247 m |
| Average of all land | 780 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 67,242 2024 est.
- Land area
- 27.8 sq mi + 1.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,416 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.0247° N, 88.5426° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Wittman Regional (OSH) 809 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 54901 54902 54904 54985
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Utica870 ft
- Nekimi850 ft
- Van Dyne790 ft
- Vinland790 ft
- Algoma790 ft
- Town of Omro780 ft
- Town of Oshkosh770 ft
- Winneconne770 ft
- Butte des Morts770 ft
- Oshkosh760 ft
- Black Wolf760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,812th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Winnebago County18th highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mary Hill1,090 ft
- Scott Hill1,020 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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, 650 ft at 44.0057° N, 88.5662° 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.