Wood River, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,010 ft 305 m980 ft 300 m970 ft 295 m940 ft 285 m910 ft 275 m900 ft 275 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
Wood River sits at about 940 ft (290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
940 ft 290 m
most residents: 930–970 ft
Lowest
890 ft 275 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,010 ft 305 m
on the southwest side
Average
940 ft 285 m
all land inside town boundaries
Wood River spans about 120 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 | 940 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,010 ft305 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 890 ft275 m |
| Average of all land | 940 ft285 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the middle of Wood River.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Burnett County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 926 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.0 sq mi + 1.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 27 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.7650° N, 92.5794° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Saint Croix River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 54840 54872
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Frederic1,230 ft
- West Sweden1,150 ft
- Lewis1,060 ft
- Daniels1,010 ft
- Lincoln, Burnett County970 ft
- Trade Lake960 ft
- Wood River940 ft
- West Marshland930 ft
- Grantsburg920 ft
- Town of Grantsburg910 ft
- Anderson890 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,078th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Burnett County20th highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pease Hill1,010 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.