Thornton, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
880 ft 270 m870 ft 265 m870 ft 265 m860 ft 260 m850 ft 260 m840 ft 260 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Thornton sits at about 860 ft (260 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
860 ft 260 m
few residents
Lowest
840 ft 260 m
on the northeast side
Highest
870 ft 265 m
on the west side
Average
850 ft 260 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Thornton spans about 30 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 860 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 870 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 840 ft260 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Thornton | 860 ft260 m |
| Airport (EZS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.0 mi east of the CDP boundary | 813 ft248 m |
| Average of all land | 850 ft260 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Shawano County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 63 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 243 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.7966° N, 88.6912° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wolf River
- Airport
- Shawano Municipal (EZS) 813 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 54166
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gresham930 ft
- Herman, Shawano County910 ft
- Leopolis900 ft
- Pella880 ft
- Pella, Shawano County880 ft
- Keshena880 ft
- Richmond, Shawano County860 ft
- Thornton860 ft
- Wescott820 ft
- Shawano820 ft
- Belle Plaine820 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,468th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Shawano County34th highest of 48
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.
- Thornton 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.