Rusk, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,360 ft 415 m1,280 ft 390 m1,240 ft 380 m1,160 ft 355 m1,090 ft 330 m1,050 ft 320 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
Rusk sits at about 1,160 ft (355 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,160 ft 355 m
most residents: 1,070–1,230 ft
Lowest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,360 ft 415 m
on the north side
Average
1,160 ft 355 m
all land inside town boundaries
Rusk spans about 310 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 | 1,160 ft355 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Airport (Y23) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi west of the town boundaries | 1,056 ft322 m |
| Average of all land | 1,160 ft355 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Rusk.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Rusk County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 573 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.5 sq mi + 2.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 17 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.3218° N, 91.4625° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Chippewa River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Chetek Municipal/Southworth (Y23) 1,056 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 54728 54895
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Strickland1,300 ft
- Weyerhaeuser1,200 ft
- Rusk1,160 ft
- Sumner, Barron County1,130 ft
- Stubbs1,100 ft
- New Auburn1,100 ft
- Dovre1,100 ft
- Sampson1,090 ft
- Town of Big Bend1,090 ft
- Town of Chetek1,060 ft
- Chetek1,050 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin457th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Rusk County20th highest of 33
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Atlanta1,720 ft
- Bald Hill1,710 ft
- Baldy Mountain1,390 ft
- Pikes Peak, Chippewa County1,250 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,050 ft at 45.2979° N, 91.5404° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.