Polar, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,710 ft 525 m1,620 ft 495 m1,580 ft 480 m1,480 ft 450 m1,390 ft 425 m1,340 ft 410 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
Polar sits at about 1,530 ft (470 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,530 ft 470 m
most residents: 1,460–1,620 ft
Lowest
1,340 ft 410 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,710 ft 525 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,520 ft 460 m
all land inside town boundaries
Polar spans about 370 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 | 1,530 ft470 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,710 ft525 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,340 ft410 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Polar | 1,520 ft460 m |
| Airport (AIG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.8 mi west of the town boundaries | 1,523 ft464 m |
| Average of all land | 1,520 ft460 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 1,014 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.6 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 28 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.1686° N, 88.9901° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Wolf River
- Airport
- Langlade County (AIG) 1,523 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 54409 54418
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Price1,640 ft
- Neva1,560 ft
- Polar1,530 ft
- Town of Antigo1,520 ft
- Antigo1,500 ft
- Ackley1,480 ft
- Rolling1,470 ft
- Norwood1,380 ft
- Evergreen, Langlade County1,360 ft
- White Lake1,290 ft
- Zoar1,210 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin101st highest of 2,049
- Towns in Langlade County11th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Ninemile Hill, Langlade County1,570 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.