Town of Wausau, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,480 ft 455 m1,410 ft 430 m1,370 ft 420 m1,300 ft 395 m1,230 ft 375 m1,190 ft 365 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Town of Wausau sits at about 1,370 ft (415 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,370 ft 415 m
most residents: 1,230–1,410 ft
Lowest
1,190 ft 365 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,480 ft 455 m
on the north side
Average
1,360 ft 415 m
all land inside town boundaries
Town of Wausau spans about 290 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 | 1,370 ft415 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 1,480 ft455 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,190 ft365 m |
| Airport (CWA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi south of the town boundaries | 1,277 ft389 m |
| Average of all land | 1,360 ft415 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Town of Wausau.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 2,173 2024 est.
- Land area
- 32.3 sq mi
- Density
- 67 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.9823° N, 89.5549° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wisconsin River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Central Wisconsin (CWA) 1,277 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 54403
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Town of Hewitt1,440 ft
- Town of Wausau1,370 ft
- Easton1,340 ft
- Maine1,330 ft
- Texas1,320 ft
- Town of Weston1,240 ft
- Weston1,210 ft
- Wausau1,210 ft
- Rib Mountain1,200 ft
- Rothschild1,190 ft
- Schofield1,180 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin191st highest of 2,049
- Towns in Marathon County12th highest of 57
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Rib Mountain1,923 ft
- Mosinee Hill1,600 ft
- Snow Hill1,490 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town boundaries, 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 town boundaries (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,190 ft at 44.9462° N, 89.5196° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.