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Timms Hill or Timm's Hill is the highest natural point in the
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Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
and is located in north-central Wisconsin in Timms Hill County Park in the Town of Hill in Price County. After being surveyed by Quentin Stevens of Ogema Telephone Co in 1962, Timms Hill was discovered to have an elevation of . It is less than south of Highway 86, about midway between Ogema and
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and about west of
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Description

Timms Hill is located in Timms Hill County Park. A public lookout tower is atop the hill. Visible to the southeast is
Rib Mountain Rib Mountain, also known as Rib Hill, is a glacially-eroded monadnock in central Wisconsin, located in the Town of Rib Mountain in Marathon County. Composed of quartzite covered with a softer syenite sheath, it was intruded about 1.5 billion ...
(elev. 1,924 ft, 586 m), 44 miles away by line of sight. The Timms Hill Trail connects to the
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stretching across glacial terrain in Wisconsin.


See also

* List of U.S. states by elevation


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