Waupaca, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,010 ft 310 m960 ft 290 m930 ft 285 m870 ft 265 m810 ft 250 m780 ft 240 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
Waupaca sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 840–910 ft
Lowest
780 ft 240 m
on the east side
Highest
1,010 ft 310 m
near the middle
Average
860 ft 260 m
all land inside city limits
Waupaca spans about 230 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 780 ft240 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Waupaca | 850 ft260 m |
| Airport (PCZ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 840 ft256 m |
| Average of all land | 860 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 6,231 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.9 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 787 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.3580° N, 89.0859° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Waupaca Municipal (PCZ) 840 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 54981
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Village of Scandinavia930 ft
- Farmington, Waupaca County920 ft
- Chain O' Lakes910 ft
- King900 ft
- Dayton900 ft
- Ogdensburg870 ft
- St. Lawrence870 ft
- Waupaca850 ft
- Town of Waupaca840 ft
- Lind840 ft
- Weyauwega800 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,476th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Waupaca County17th highest of 37
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Morris1,133 ft
- Mount Joel1,010 ft
- Mosquito Hill970 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 and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.