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Wisconsin Physical Map

Wisconsin’s "Driftless Area" was somehow missed by the last ice age — visible on a physical map as a region of unusually steep, ancient terrain.

Rendered from SRTM 30m elevation data + Natural Earth rivers/lakes + US Census state boundary. Four versions below, all free.

Highest Point

Timms Hill

1,951 ft

Lowest Point

Lake Michigan

579 ft

Wisconsin physical map showing the Driftless Area, the Door Peninsula, the Northern Highland, and the Central Plain, with major peaks and cities labeled. Topographic relief from NASA SRTM elevation data.

Choose your version

Two maps, two versions of each.

The same Wisconsin terrain as a classroom map and as wall art. All four are free PDFs.

Wisconsin physical map, labeled: the Driftless Area, the Door Peninsula, the Northern Highland, and the Central Plain, with the capital, cities and highest point marked
Labeled
Wisconsin blank physical map: the same terrain with no labels, for labeling practice
Blank
Physical map

Wisconsin physical map for the classroom

Elevation in color with shaded relief, plus the surrounding states and water for context. The labeled version marks the capital, major cities and the highest point. The blank version leaves them off so students can label the map themselves.

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Wisconsin relief wall art on a dark background
Dark
Wisconsin relief wall art on a light background
Light
Wall art

Wisconsin relief wall art

Wisconsin on its own, with strong shaded relief and no labels. The dark version has the most contrast. The light version uses far less ink on a home printer.

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The physical geography of Wisconsin

Wisconsin has five land regions. A narrow lowland borders Lake Superior in the far north. South of it is the Northern Highland, a forested upland with many lakes and Timms Hill, the highest point. The Central Plain is a flat, sandy crescent across the middle of the state. The southwest is the Driftless Area, which the glaciers missed, so it has steep ridges and deep valleys. The east has low ridges and plains along Lake Michigan, including the Door Peninsula and Lake Winnebago.

Major rivers

  • Wisconsin
  • Mississippi
  • St. Croix
  • Chippewa
  • Fox
  • Wolf
  • Rock

Find it on the map

  • The Door Peninsula between Green Bay and Lake Michigan
  • Lake Winnebago in the east
  • The rougher terrain of the southwest
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Built from real data, not stock images.

Every Wisconsin physical map on this page was rendered from NASA SRTM 30-meter elevation data, with hydrography from Natural Earth and the shoreline-clipped state outline from the US Census Bureau. Each map is colored over that state’s own elevation range, and the relief shading is exaggerated so gentle terrain still shows.

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Wisconsin political map

The blank outline version of Wisconsin (state borders, no terrain). Useful for political-geography exercises.

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