Rock Falls, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,670 ft 510 m1,570 ft 480 m1,530 ft 465 m1,430 ft 435 m1,330 ft 405 m1,280 ft 390 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
Rock Falls sits at about 1,460 ft (445 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,460 ft 445 m
most residents: 1,370–1,500 ft
Lowest
1,280 ft 390 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,670 ft 510 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,460 ft 445 m
all land inside town boundaries
Rock Falls spans about 390 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 | 1,460 ft445 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,670 ft510 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Airport (RRL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.7 mi south of the town boundaries | 1,318 ft402 m |
| Average of all land | 1,460 ft445 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
10 mi south to north through the middle of Rock Falls.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Lincoln County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 625 2024 est.
- Land area
- 47.7 sq mi + 1.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 13 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.3144° N, 89.7427° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Wisconsin River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Merrill Municipal (RRL) 1,318 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 54442 54452 54487
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Birch1,540 ft
- Skanawan1,510 ft
- Russell, Lincoln County1,470 ft
- Town of Tomahawk1,470 ft
- Rock Falls1,460 ft
- Tomahawk1,450 ft
- Schley1,440 ft
- Harding1,350 ft
- Scott, Lincoln County1,330 ft
- Town of Merrill1,320 ft
- Merrill1,280 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin146th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Lincoln County10th highest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Irma Hill1,770 ft
- Chase Hill1,760 ft
- Porcupine Mountain1,640 ft
- Ninemile Hill, Lincoln County1,490 ft
- Snow Hill1,490 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.