Portage County, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,310 ft 400 m1,220 ft 370 m1,170 ft 355 m1,070 ft 325 m970 ft 295 m920 ft 280 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Portage County averages about 1,120 ft (340 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 920 ft on the southeast side to 1,310 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
1,120 ft 340 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,310 ft 400 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
920 ft 280 m
on the southeast side
Portage County spans about 390 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 | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 920 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
31 mi west to east through Stevens Point.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 72,040 2024 est.
- Land area
- 800.9 sq mi + 21.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 90 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Central Lowland 87%, Superior Upland 13%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 67%, Great Lakes 25%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Marathon County1,300 ft
- Portage County1,120 ft
- Wood County1,080 ft
- Adams County980 ft
- Waushara County940 ft
- Waupaca County880 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Wisconsin17th highest of 71
- Counties in the United States1,222nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mosquito Bluff1,240 ft
- Rock Hill, Portage County1,200 ft
- Haumschild Hill1,170 ft
- The Ledge1,150 ft
- Lone Rock1,140 ft
All 29 towns in Portage County by typical elevation
- Polonia1,220 ft
- Sharon1,190 ft
- Stockton1,170 ft
- Almond1,160 ft
- Junction City1,160 ft
- Buena Vista, Portage County1,150 ft
- Village of Almond1,150 ft
- Alban1,150 ft
- Rosholt1,140 ft
- Dewey1,140 ft
- New Hope1,140 ft
- Eau Pleine1,130 ft
- Amherst Junction1,130 ft
- Carson1,110 ft
- Hull1,110 ft
- Town of Belmont1,110 ft
- Amherst1,110 ft
- Park Ridge1,100 ft
- Stevens Point1,090 ft
- Bancroft1,090 ft
- Pine Grove1,090 ft
- Nelsonville1,080 ft
- Town of Plover1,080 ft
- Whiting1,080 ft
- Linwood1,080 ft
- Plover1,080 ft
- Lanark1,080 ft
- Village of Amherst1,060 ft
- Grant1,040 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. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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.