Our Neighborhood
A neighborhood on the hill
Eastside Hill sits on a high terrace above the Chippewa River in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. About 1,200 households live here, on a grid of leafy streets between Boyd Park and the river bluff. The neighborhood took shape in the late 1800s as a working-class extension of the city's Second Ward, and it still reads that way today: modest cottages and bungalows, sidewalks on nearly every block, kids on bikes, neighbors on porches.
Where the neighborhood is
The hill rises from the east bank of the Chippewa River and runs east along a grid of older residential streets. On the west, the neighborhood ends where the bluff drops toward the river. To the north, east, and south, the boundary follows a set of city streets that the neighborhood association has mapped and ratified.
The canonical source for that boundary is a single GeoJSON file checked into this website: east_hill_boundary.geojson. Every boundary claim on this site — on the map, in the newsletter, in this page's prose — refers back to that file. If you find a discrepancy between a street name written here and a coordinate in the file, the file wins.
A Leaflet map of the same polygon is embedded on this page so you can see the shape at a glance, pan around, and check whether a given Eau Claire address falls inside. If you only want one answer to "am I in Eastside Hill?", that map is the fastest way to get it.
What you can do next
Three small ways to stay in touch or learn more:
- Sign up for the neighborhood newsletter — monthly, short, and low-volume.
- If you're thinking about moving here, we keep a page with practical details — schools, transit, what kind of house your budget buys on the hill.
- Take the self-guided walking tour — a one-hour loop hitting the history capsule, the parks, the footbridge, and the best porches to look at on the way back.