Alpha, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,560 ft 475 m1,520 ft 465 m1,490 ft 455 m1,450 ft 440 m1,400 ft 425 m1,380 ft 420 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Alpha sits at about 1,460 ft (445 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,460 ft 445 m
most residents: 1,410–1,490 ft
Lowest
1,380 ft 420 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,560 ft 475 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,440 ft 440 m
all land inside village limits
Alpha spans about 180 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 | 1,460 ft445 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northwest side | 1,560 ft475 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 1,380 ft420 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Alpha | 1,420 ft435 m |
| Airport (50D) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.0 mi southeast of the village limits | 1,340 ft408 m |
| Average of all land | 1,440 ft440 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Iron County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 125 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 132 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.0438° N, 88.3771° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Menominee River
- Airport
- Iron County (50D) 1,340 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 49902
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gaastra1,650 ft
- Bates Township1,610 ft
- Caspian1,490 ft
- Crystal Falls1,470 ft
- Crystal Falls Township1,470 ft
- Alpha1,460 ft
- Mansfield Township1,390 ft
- Mastodon Township1,380 ft
- Florence, Florence County, WI1,300 ft
- Florence, WI1,290 ft
- Commonwealth, WI1,290 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan31st highest of 1,985
- Towns in Iron County10th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sheridan Hill1,850 ft
- Michigamme Mountain1,580 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village limits, 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 village limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,380 ft at 46.0365° N, 88.3874° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.