Alpena Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
790 ft 240 m740 ft 225 m710 ft 215 m660 ft 200 m600 ft 185 m580 ft 175 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Alpena Township sits at about 630 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
630 ft 190 m
most residents: 590–680 ft
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the east side
Highest
790 ft 240 m
on the north side
Average
650 ft 195 m
all land inside township boundaries
Alpena Township spans about 210 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 | 630 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 790 ft240 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 580 ft175 m |
| Airport (APN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.3 mi west of the township boundaries | 690 ft210 m |
| Average of all land | 650 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
18 mi south to north through the middle of Alpena Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Alpena County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 9,108 2024 est.
- Land area
- 104.8 sq mi + 36.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 87 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.0837° N, 83.4618° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Alpena County Regional (APN) 690 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 49707 49766
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ossineke Township790 ft
- Green Township, Alpena County770 ft
- Wilson Township730 ft
- Long Rapids Township720 ft
- Maple Ridge Township690 ft
- Sanborn Township660 ft
- Alpena Township630 ft
- Presque Isle Township630 ft
- Ossineke610 ft
- Krakow Township610 ft
- Alpena590 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,726th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Alpena County8th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Maria1,080 ft
- Hickey Hill1,000 ft
- Manning Hill920 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township 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 township 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 and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.