Wauwatosa, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
820 ft 250 m770 ft 235 m750 ft 230 m700 ft 215 m650 ft 200 m630 ft 190 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
Wauwatosa sits at about 730 ft (220 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
730 ft 220 m
most residents: 690–770 ft
Lowest
630 ft 190 m
on the southeast side
Highest
820 ft 250 m
on the west side
Average
730 ft 220 m
all land inside city limits
Wauwatosa spans about 190 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 | 730 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 820 ft250 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 630 ft190 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wauwatosa | 660 ft200 m |
| Airport (MKE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.6 mi southeast of the city limits | 728 ft222 m |
| Average of all land | 730 ft220 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 48,794 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.2 sq mi
- Density
- 3,689 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.0495° N, 88.0076° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- General Mitchell International (MKE) 728 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 53213 53222 53225 53226
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Brookfield850 ft
- Elm Grove790 ft
- Greenfield770 ft
- Butler760 ft
- West Allis740 ft
- Wauwatosa730 ft
- Milwaukee680 ft
- Shorewood670 ft
- West Milwaukee660 ft
- Glendale650 ft
- Whitefish Bay650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,870th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Milwaukee County6th highest of 19
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).
- 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, 620 ft at 43.0426° N, 87.9882° 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 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.