Lac Vieux Desert Reservation, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,770 ft 540 m1,720 ft 525 m1,690 ft 515 m1,650 ft 500 m1,600 ft 485 m1,570 ft 480 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official reservation boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lac Vieux Desert Reservation averages about 1,630 ft (495 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,570 ft on the north side to 1,770 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
1,630 ft 495 m
all land inside the reservation
Highest
1,770 ft 540 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
1,570 ft 480 m
on the north side
Lac Vieux Desert Reservation spans about 200 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,630 ft495 m |
| Highest point Inside the reservation, on the southeast side | 1,770 ft540 m |
| Lowest point Inside the reservation, on the north side | 1,570 ft480 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.2 mi south to north through the middle of Lac Vieux Desert Reservation.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Reservation in Michigan, United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Population
- 221 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 192 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 13%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearest tribal lands nearest, by average
- Lac Vieux Desert Reservation1,630 ft
- Lac du Flambeau Reservation, WI1,610 ft
- Sokaogon Chippewa Community, WI1,570 ft
- Forest County Potawatomi Community, WI1,540 ft
- L'Anse Reservation980 ft
- Ontonagon Reservation640 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Tribal lands in Michiganhighest of 13
- Tribal lands in the United States181st highest of 704
The one town in the reservation
- Watersmeet Township partly1,660 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census reservation boundary (TIGER/Line AIANNH, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Name: the Census Bureau's legal or statistical area name, as published; the nation's own name may differ.
- Population: 2020 Census residents of the blocks inside the boundary.
- Nearby Places: nearest tribal lands and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the reservation with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the reservation.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.