Village of Waukesha, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m980 ft 300 m950 ft 290 m880 ft 270 m810 ft 250 m780 ft 240 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Village of Waukesha sits at about 880 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
880 ft 270 m
most residents: 810–960 ft
Lowest
780 ft 240 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the east side
Average
860 ft 260 m
all land inside village limits
Village of Waukesha spans about 270 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 | 880 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the east side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 780 ft240 m |
| Airport (UES) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.4 mi north of the village limits | 912 ft278 m |
| Average of all land | 860 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Village of Waukesha.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 8,573 2024 est.
- Land area
- 20.6 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 416 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.9670° N, 88.2472° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Fox River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Waukesha County (UES) 912 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wales1,000 ft
- Delafield990 ft
- Genesee960 ft
- Village of Waukesha880 ft
- Vernon880 ft
- Waukesha880 ft
- Pewaukee870 ft
- New Berlin870 ft
- Town of Brookfield870 ft
- Big Bend820 ft
- Muskego800 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,334th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Waukesha County19th highest of 38
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Lapham Hill1,230 ft
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, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.