Shields, WI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

960 ft 295 m910 ft 280 m890 ft 270 m840 ft 255 m800 ft 245 m770 ft 235 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Shields sits at about 820 ft (250 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

820 ft 250 m

most residents: 800–860 ft

Lowest

770 ft 235 m

on the southeast side

Highest

960 ft 295 m

on the southwest side

Average

820 ft 250 m

all land inside town boundaries

Shields spans about 190 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	820 ft250 m
Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side	960 ft295 m
Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side	770 ft235 m
Average of all land	820 ft250 m

Elevation profile, south to north

5.3 mi south to north through the middle of Shields.

Topographic Map

Location: Town in Marquette County, Wisconsin, United States
Population: 590 2024 est.
Land area: 30.9 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
Density: 19 per sq mi
Coordinates: 43.8538° N, 89.2947° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Fox River
ZIP codes 3: 53949 54960 54968

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Wisconsin1,617th highest of 2,049
Towns in Marquette County10th highest of 22

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Observatory Hill, Marquette County1,100 ft
Mount Pisgah, Marquette County960 ft
Stone Hill950 ft
Rock Hill, Green Lake County939 ft
Grays Rocks840 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.