Washburn, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,000 ft 305 m900 ft 275 m850 ft 260 m750 ft 230 m650 ft 200 m600 ft 185 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Washburn sits at about 700 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
700 ft 215 m
most residents: 660–850 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,000 ft 305 m
on the northwest side
Average
740 ft 225 m
all land inside city limits
Washburn spans about 400 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 | 700 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 600 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Washburn | 690 ft210 m |
| Airport (ASX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.6 mi south of the city limits | 827 ft252 m |
| Average of all land | 740 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 2,055 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.9 sq mi
- Density
- 525 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.6733° N, 90.8949° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Saint Marys River → Niagara River
- Airport
- John F Kennedy Memorial (ASX) 827 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 54891
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Town of Washburn930 ft
- Bayfield900 ft
- Barksdale780 ft
- Gingles760 ft
- Bayview760 ft
- Eileen720 ft
- Washburn700 ft
- Ashland680 ft
- La Pointe660 ft
- Bayfront630 ft
- Diaperville610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,919th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Bayfield County30th highest of 35
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Valhalla1,380 ft
- Mount Ashwabay1,330 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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, 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.