Town of Superior, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,240 ft 375 m1,080 ft 330 m1,000 ft 305 m840 ft 255 m680 ft 210 m600 ft 185 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Town of Superior sits at about 780 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
780 ft 235 m
most residents: 670–1,120 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,240 ft 375 m
on the south side
Average
800 ft 240 m
all land inside town boundaries
Town of Superior spans about 640 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 | 780 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 1,240 ft375 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 600 ft185 m |
| Airport (SUW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.9 mi north of the town boundaries | 674 ft205 m |
| Average of all land | 800 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
11 mi south to north through the middle of Town of Superior.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Douglas County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 2,283 2024 est.
- Land area
- 106.1 sq mi + 1.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 22 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.5759° N, 92.1226° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Saint Marys River → Niagara River
- Airport
- Richard I Bong (SUW) 674 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 54836 54880
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Midway Township, MN1,270 ft
- Town of Summit1,200 ft
- Oakland, Douglas County1,110 ft
- Silver Brook Township, MN1,030 ft
- Amnicon950 ft
- Wrenshall Township, MN940 ft
- Town of Superior780 ft
- Parkland750 ft
- Village of Superior670 ft
- Oliver660 ft
- Superior640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,765th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Douglas County19th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pikes Peak, Douglas County1,320 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.