Post Lake, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,650 ft 505 m1,620 ft 495 m1,600 ft 490 m1,570 ft 480 m1,530 ft 470 m1,520 ft 465 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Post Lake sits at about 1,540 ft (470 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,540 ft 470 m
most residents: 1,530–1,630 ft
Lowest
1,520 ft 465 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,650 ft 505 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,550 ft 470 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Post Lake spans about 130 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 | 1,540 ft470 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 1,650 ft505 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 1,520 ft465 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Post Lake | 1,540 ft470 m |
| Airport (Y55) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.8 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 1,650 ft503 m |
| Average of all land | 1,550 ft470 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 343 2020 Census
- Land area
- 7.2 sq mi + 1.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 47 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.4408° N, 89.0804° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Wolf River
- Airport
- Crandon/Steve Conway Municipal (Y55) 1,650 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 54428
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Summit Lake1,710 ft
- Upham1,690 ft
- Elcho, Langlade County1,630 ft
- Elcho1,630 ft
- Enterprise1,630 ft
- Schoepke1,610 ft
- Monico1,600 ft
- Nashville1,570 ft
- Mole Lake1,550 ft
- Ainsworth1,550 ft
- Post Lake1,540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin99th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Langlade County10th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sugarbush Hill1,940 ft
- East Hill1,860 ft
- Baldy Hill1,830 ft
- West Hill1,750 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Post Lake is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.