Little Traverse Bay Reservation, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,100 ft 335 m970 ft 295 m910 ft 275 m770 ft 235 m640 ft 195 m580 ft 175 m
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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
Little Traverse Bay Reservation averages about 750 ft (230 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 580 ft on the west side to 1,100 ft on the east side.
Average elevation
750 ft 230 m
all land inside the reservation
Highest
1,100 ft 335 m
on the east side
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the west side
Little Traverse Bay Reservation spans about 520 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 | 750 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside the reservation, on the east side | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Lowest point Inside the reservation, on the west side | 580 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the middle of Little Traverse Bay Reservation.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Reservation, with off-reservation trust land in Michigan, United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Population
- 243 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.9 sq mi
- Density
- 126 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearest tribal lands nearest, by average
- Isabella Reservation790 ft
- Little Traverse Bay Reservation750 ft
- Sault Ste. Marie Reservation740 ft
- Grand Traverse Reservation730 ft
- Little River Reservation690 ft
- Bay Mills Reservation650 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Tribal lands in Michigan7th highest of 13
- Tribal lands in the United States307th highest of 704
All 8 towns in the reservation by typical elevation
- Resort Township partly810 ft
- West Traverse Township partly810 ft
- Little Traverse Township partly740 ft
- Carp Lake Township partly730 ft
- Petoskey partly720 ft
- McKinley Township partly700 ft
- Pellston partly700 ft
- Hayes Township, Charlevoix County partly680 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 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; 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.