Shorewood, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
710 ft 215 m680 ft 205 m660 ft 200 m630 ft 195 m600 ft 185 m590 ft 180 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Shorewood sits at about 670 ft (205 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
670 ft 205 m
most residents: 650–690 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the east side
Highest
710 ft 215 m
on the northeast side
Average
670 ft 205 m
all land inside village limits
Shorewood spans about 120 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 | 670 ft205 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northeast side | 710 ft215 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the east side | 590 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shorewood | 680 ft205 m |
| Airport (MKE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.3 mi south of the village limits | 728 ft222 m |
| Average of all land | 670 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 13,521 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 8,504 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.0892° N, 87.8876° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- General Mitchell International (MKE) 728 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 53211
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- West Allis740 ft
- Wauwatosa730 ft
- River Hills690 ft
- Fox Point690 ft
- Milwaukee680 ft
- Brown Deer680 ft
- Shorewood670 ft
- Bayside670 ft
- West Milwaukee660 ft
- Glendale650 ft
- Whitefish Bay650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,964th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Milwaukee County14th highest of 19
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village limits, 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 village limits (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 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.