Bay City, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
790 ft 240 m760 ft 230 m740 ft 225 m710 ft 220 m690 ft 210 m670 ft 205 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bay City sits at about 750 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
750 ft 225 m
most residents: 670–750 ft
Lowest
670 ft 205 m
near the middle
Highest
790 ft 240 m
at the foot of the West Bluff
Average
720 ft 220 m
all land inside village limits
Bay City spans about 120 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 | 750 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, at the foot of the West Bluff | 790 ft240 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, near the middle | 670 ft205 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bay City | 690 ft210 m |
| Airport (RGK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.4 mi west of the village limits | 778 ft237 m |
| Average of all land | 720 ft220 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Pierce County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 452 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 765 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.5855° N, 92.4505° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Red Wing Regional (RGK) 778 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 54723
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Town of Hartland1,040 ft
- Salem1,040 ft
- Hay Creek Township, MN1,030 ft
- Village of Maiden Rock950 ft
- Wacouta Township, MN830 ft
- Red Wing, MN820 ft
- Isabelle790 ft
- Trenton, Pierce County770 ft
- Bay City750 ft
- Hager City730 ft
- Frontenac, MN720 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,843rd highest of 2,049
- Towns in Pierce County25th highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Nerike Hill1,160 ft
- Ulvin Hill1,140 ft
- Cotter Hill1,130 ft
- Negro Hill1,130 ft
- Seine Hill1,080 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 village 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).
- 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. All public domain.