Ottawa, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,120 ft 340 m1,050 ft 320 m1,020 ft 310 m950 ft 290 m880 ft 265 m840 ft 255 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
Ottawa sits at about 880 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
880 ft 270 m
most residents: 860–1,050 ft
Lowest
840 ft 255 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,120 ft 340 m
near the middle
Average
910 ft 275 m
all land inside town boundaries
Ottawa spans about 280 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 | 880 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, near the middle | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 840 ft255 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ottawa | 950 ft290 m |
| Airport (W11) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.2 mi west of the town boundaries | 843 ft257 m |
| Average of all land | 910 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 3,667 2024 est.
- Land area
- 32.7 sq mi + 1.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 112 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.9761° N, 88.4498° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Rock River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lake Country (W11) 843 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 53066 53118 53119 53153
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wales1,000 ft
- North Prairie970 ft
- Genesee960 ft
- Town of Mukwonago940 ft
- Village of Eagle930 ft
- City of Delafield930 ft
- Eagle920 ft
- Ottawa880 ft
- Summit880 ft
- Sullivan870 ft
- Dousman860 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,336th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Waukesha County20th highest of 38
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Lapham Hill1,230 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.