Rusk, Burnett County, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,220 ft 375 m1,160 ft 355 m1,120 ft 340 m1,060 ft 320 m990 ft 300 m960 ft 290 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, Burnett County sits at about 990 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
990 ft 300 m
most residents: 980–1,070 ft
Lowest
960 ft 290 m
on the west side
Highest
1,220 ft 375 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,020 ft 310 m
all land inside town boundaries
Rusk, Burnett County spans about 260 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 | 990 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,220 ft375 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 960 ft290 m |
| Average of all land | 1,020 ft310 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.9 mi south to north through the middle of Rusk, Burnett County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Burnett County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 482 2024 est.
- Land area
- 32.6 sq mi + 2.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 15 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.8665° N, 92.0860° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Yellow River → Saint Croix River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 54801 54893
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bashaw1,190 ft
- Spooner1,090 ft
- Dewey, Burnett County1,080 ft
- Evergreen1,060 ft
- Casey1,030 ft
- Scott, Burnett County1,010 ft
- Webb Lake1,000 ft
- Town of Jackson1,000 ft
- La Follette1,000 ft
- Rusk, Burnett County990 ft
- Sand Lake, Burnett County990 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin912th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Burnett County10th highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Crystal Mountain1,280 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.