Washburn County, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,500 ft 460 m1,360 ft 415 m1,290 ft 395 m1,140 ft 350 m1,000 ft 305 m930 ft 285 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Washburn County averages about 1,170 ft (355 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 930 ft on the northwest side to 1,500 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
1,170 ft 355 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,500 ft 460 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
930 ft 285 m
on the northwest side
Washburn County spans about 570 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,500 ft460 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 930 ft285 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Spooner.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 16,982 2024 est.
- Land area
- 797.1 sq mi + 56.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 21 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Sawyer County1,370 ft
- Barron County1,200 ft
- Washburn County1,170 ft
- Douglas County1,060 ft
- Burnett County990 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Wisconsin15th highest of 71
- Counties in the United States1,150th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Crystal Mountain1,280 ft
All 28 towns in Washburn County by typical elevation
- Barronett1,350 ft
- Stone Lake, Sawyer County partly1,340 ft
- Sarona1,310 ft
- Birchwood1,300 ft
- Stone Lake1,300 ft
- Long Lake1,290 ft
- Madge1,280 ft
- Village of Birchwood1,260 ft
- Shell Lake1,240 ft
- Beaver Brook1,210 ft
- Bashaw1,190 ft
- Crystal1,190 ft
- Bass Lake, Washburn County1,180 ft
- Gull Lake1,150 ft
- Stinnett1,150 ft
- Brooklyn, Washburn County1,150 ft
- Town of Spooner1,110 ft
- Springbrook1,100 ft
- Springbrook, Washburn County1,090 ft
- Spooner1,090 ft
- Frog Creek1,080 ft
- Trego1,080 ft
- Trego, Washburn County1,070 ft
- Village of Minong1,060 ft
- Evergreen1,060 ft
- Minong1,050 ft
- Casey1,030 ft
- Chicog1,010 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.