Richwood, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,170 ft 355 m1,040 ft 315 m980 ft 295 m850 ft 260 m720 ft 220 m650 ft 200 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Richwood sits at about 760 ft (230 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
760 ft 230 m
most residents: 660–990 ft
Lowest
650 ft 200 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,170 ft 355 m
on the north side
Average
840 ft 255 m
all land inside town boundaries
Richwood spans about 520 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 | 760 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 650 ft200 m |
| Airport (OVS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.8 mi southwest of the town boundaries | 673 ft205 m |
| Average of all land | 840 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.7 mi south to north through the middle of Richwood.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Richland County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 521 2024 est.
- Land area
- 41.6 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 13 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.2410° N, 90.5951° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wisconsin River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Boscobel (OVS) 673 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 53518
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Akan1,060 ft
- Scott, Crawford County1,030 ft
- Dayton, Richland County1,030 ft
- Eagle, Richland County860 ft
- Orion850 ft
- Watterstown810 ft
- Richwood760 ft
- Boaz740 ft
- Town of Muscoda690 ft
- Muscoda690 ft
- Blue River670 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,821st highest of 2,049
- Towns in Richland County18th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Red Hill1,190 ft
- Pine Hill1,120 ft
- Pauls Hill1,080 ft
- Rattlesnake Point1,050 ft
- Cooper Hill970 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town boundaries, 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 town boundaries (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.