Pierce County, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,280 ft 390 m1,130 ft 345 m1,050 ft 320 m900 ft 275 m750 ft 225 m670 ft 205 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Pierce County averages about 1,030 ft (315 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 670 ft on the south side to 1,280 ft on the northeast side.
Average elevation
1,030 ft 315 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,280 ft 390 m
on the northeast side
Lowest
670 ft 205 m
on the south side
Pierce County spans about 610 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 670 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
20 mi west to east through River Falls.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 43,380 2024 est.
- Land area
- 574.0 sq mi + 18.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 76 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- St. Croix County1,060 ft
- Goodhue County, MN1,060 ft
- Pierce County1,030 ft
- Dunn County980 ft
- Washington County, MN930 ft
- Pepin County920 ft
- Dakota County, MN920 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Wisconsin26th highest of 71
- Counties in the United States1,349th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Tuttle Hill1,220 ft
- Hammond Hill1,200 ft
- Nerike Hill1,160 ft
- Ulvin Hill1,140 ft
- Cotter Hill1,130 ft
All 27 towns in Pierce County by typical elevation
- Ellsworth1,200 ft
- Spring Lake1,120 ft
- Rock Elm1,120 ft
- Gilman1,120 ft
- Martell1,120 ft
- Union, Pierce County1,110 ft
- Maiden Rock1,080 ft
- Town of Ellsworth1,070 ft
- Town of River Falls1,070 ft
- Spring Valley1,060 ft
- Town of Hartland1,040 ft
- Trimbelle1,040 ft
- Salem1,040 ft
- El Paso1,030 ft
- Diamond Bluff970 ft
- Village of Maiden Rock950 ft
- Oak Grove950 ft
- River Falls910 ft
- Clifton880 ft
- Elmwood860 ft
- Plum City840 ft
- Prescott810 ft
- Isabelle790 ft
- Trenton, Pierce County770 ft
- Bay City750 ft
- Hager City730 ft
- Diamond Bluff, Pierce County720 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.