Richland County, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,310 ft 400 m1,140 ft 350 m1,060 ft 325 m900 ft 275 m730 ft 225 m650 ft 200 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
Richland County averages about 960 ft (295 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 650 ft on the south side to 1,310 ft on the northeast side.
Average elevation
960 ft 295 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,310 ft 400 m
on the northeast side
Lowest
650 ft 200 m
on the south side
Richland County spans about 660 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 | 960 ft295 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 650 ft200 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
24 mi south to north through Richland Center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 17,123 2024 est.
- Land area
- 586.1 sq mi + 3.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 29 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
- Vernon County1,090 ft
- Iowa County1,020 ft
- Sauk County970 ft
- Richland County960 ft
- Crawford County950 ft
- Grant County950 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Wisconsin38th highest of 71
- Counties in the United States1,476th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Spring Hill1,200 ft
- Eysnogel Hill1,200 ft
- Red Hill1,190 ft
- Mount Sheldon1,160 ft
- Cribben Hill1,140 ft
All 24 towns in Richland County by typical elevation
- Westford, Richland County1,160 ft
- Sylvan1,140 ft
- Bloom1,140 ft
- Forest, Richland County1,130 ft
- Town of Marshall1,080 ft
- Akan1,060 ft
- Willow1,040 ft
- Dayton, Richland County1,030 ft
- Rockbridge970 ft
- Cazenovia970 ft
- Henrietta950 ft
- Ithaca920 ft
- Richland880 ft
- Yuba860 ft
- Eagle, Richland County860 ft
- Orion850 ft
- Viola780 ft
- Richwood760 ft
- Richland Center750 ft
- Boaz740 ft
- Sextonville730 ft
- Buena Vista710 ft
- Lone Rock710 ft
- Gotham700 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.