Phelps, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,900 ft 580 m1,830 ft 560 m1,800 ft 550 m1,730 ft 525 m1,660 ft 505 m1,630 ft 495 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
Phelps sits at about 1,740 ft (530 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,740 ft 530 m
most residents: 1,690–1,800 ft
Lowest
1,630 ft 495 m
on the south side
Highest
1,900 ft 580 m
on the south side
Average
1,740 ft 530 m
all land inside town boundaries
Phelps spans about 270 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 | 1,740 ft530 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 1,900 ft580 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 1,630 ft495 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Phelps | 1,730 ft530 m |
| Airport (LNL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.5 mi northwest of the town boundaries | 1,706 ft520 m |
| Average of all land | 1,740 ft530 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
11 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Vilas County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 1,289 2024 est.
- Land area
- 93.9 sq mi + 14.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 14 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.0644° N, 89.0876° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Wisconsin River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Kings Land O' Lakes (LNL) 1,706 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 54519 54521 54540 54554
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Phelps1,740 ft
- Land O'Lakes1,710 ft
- Conover1,680 ft
- Washington, Vilas County1,660 ft
- Watersmeet Township, MI1,660 ft
- Cloverland1,640 ft
- Lincoln1,640 ft
- Eagle River1,640 ft
- Alvin1,640 ft
- Watersmeet, MI1,600 ft
- Stambaugh Township, MI1,580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsinhighest of 2,049
- Towns in Vilas Countyhighest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Military Hill1,850 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.