Midwest, WY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,900 ft 1,495 m4,880 ft 1,485 m4,870 ft 1,485 m4,840 ft 1,475 m4,820 ft 1,470 m4,810 ft 1,465 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Midwest sits at about 4,860 ft (1,480 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,860 ft 1,480 m
most residents: 4,850–4,880 ft
Lowest
4,810 ft 1,465 m
on the south side
Highest
4,900 ft 1,495 m
on the northeast side
Average
4,850 ft 1,480 m
all land inside town limits
Midwest spans about 90 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 | 4,860 ft1,480 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 4,900 ft1,495 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 4,810 ft1,465 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Midwest | 4,850 ft1,480 m |
| Average of all land | 4,850 ft1,480 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 4,860 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
203.0 °F95.0 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
84% of sea level
25.0 inHg (84.8 kPa): each breath holds 16% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.5% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+10% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Natrona County, Wyoming, United States
- Population
- 291 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 674 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.4114° N, 106.2800° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Salt Creek → Powder River → Yellowstone River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 82643
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Antelope Hills5,680 ft
- Homa Hills5,480 ft
- Bar Nunn5,340 ft
- Hartrandt5,290 ft
- Casper5,240 ft
- Mountain View, Natrona County5,220 ft
- Brookhurst5,110 ft
- Evansville5,110 ft
- Edgerton4,910 ft
- Midwest4,860 ft
- Kaycee4,650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wyoming144th highest of 205
- Towns in Natrona Countylowest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Reno Hill8,766 ft
- Muddy Mountain8,300 ft
- Saddle Rock, Natrona County5,370 ft
- Castle Rock, Natrona County5,320 ft
- Six Horse Hill, Johnson County5,240 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.