Black River Falls, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,040 ft 320 m970 ft 295 m930 ft 285 m850 ft 260 m780 ft 235 m740 ft 225 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
Black River Falls sits at about 830 ft (255 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
830 ft 255 m
most residents: 770–870 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,040 ft 320 m
on the north side
Average
840 ft 255 m
all land inside city limits
Black River Falls spans about 300 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 | 830 ft255 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,040 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 740 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Black River Falls | 790 ft240 m |
| Airport (BCK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.3 mi south of the city limits | 836 ft255 m |
| Average of all land | 840 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Jackson County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 3,563 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.2 sq mi
- Density
- 840 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.2947° N, 90.8515° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Black River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Black River Falls Area (BCK) 836 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 54615
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hixton1,000 ft
- Alma980 ft
- Albion, Jackson County960 ft
- Town of Adams890 ft
- Irving880 ft
- Komensky880 ft
- Sand Pillow880 ft
- Manchester, Jackson County880 ft
- Mission880 ft
- Brockway860 ft
- Black River Falls830 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,555th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Jackson County28th highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stanley Mound1,300 ft
- Castle Mound1,060 ft
- Silver Mound, Jackson County1,000 ft
- Levis Mound, Jackson County990 ft
- Iron Mound (historical)960 ft
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).
- 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.