River Falls, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,130 ft 345 m1,050 ft 320 m1,010 ft 305 m920 ft 280 m840 ft 255 m800 ft 245 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
River Falls sits at about 910 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
910 ft 280 m
most residents: 890–950 ft
Lowest
800 ft 245 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,130 ft 345 m
on the east side
Average
930 ft 285 m
all land inside city limits
River Falls spans about 330 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 | 910 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 800 ft245 m |
| Town center USGS map point for River Falls | 890 ft275 m |
| Average of all land | 930 ft285 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Pierce and St. Croix counties, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 17,802 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.5 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,370 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.8614° N, 92.6238° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 54022
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pleasant Valley, St. Croix County1,110 ft
- Kinnickinnic1,080 ft
- Town of River Falls1,070 ft
- Warren1,030 ft
- Afton, MN930 ft
- Troy930 ft
- Town of Hudson910 ft
- River Falls910 ft
- Clifton880 ft
- Lake St. Croix Beach, MN710 ft
- St. Marys Point, MN700 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,207th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Pierce County18th highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Melander Hill1,090 ft
- Lone Mound1,060 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.