Prescott, WI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
940 ft 290 m880 ft 265 m840 ft 255 m780 ft 235 m710 ft 215 m680 ft 205 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
Prescott sits at about 810 ft (245 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
810 ft 245 m
most residents: 780–890 ft
Lowest
680 ft 205 m
on the southeast side
Highest
940 ft 290 m
on the northeast side
Average
830 ft 250 m
all land inside city limits
Prescott spans about 260 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 | 810 ft245 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 940 ft290 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 680 ft205 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Prescott | 710 ft215 m |
| Average of all land | 830 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Pierce County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 4,584 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.8 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,618 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.7489° N, 92.8021° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 54021
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Oak Grove950 ft
- Cottage Grove, MN890 ft
- Clifton880 ft
- Denmark Township, MN880 ft
- Vermillion Township, MN880 ft
- Vermillion, MN840 ft
- Nininger Township, MN840 ft
- Marshan Township, MN830 ft
- Ravenna Township, MN830 ft
- Hastings, MN820 ft
- Prescott810 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,649th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Pierce County22nd highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Melander Hill1,090 ft
- Dills Mound1,050 ft
- Yorks Mound1,050 ft
- Ashbaugh Mound1,050 ft
- Starks Mound1,000 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.