Arbela Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
790 ft 240 m750 ft 230 m730 ft 225 m690 ft 210 m650 ft 200 m630 ft 190 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Arbela Township sits at about 710 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
710 ft 215 m
most residents: 660–750 ft
Lowest
630 ft 190 m
on the northwest side
Highest
790 ft 240 m
on the southwest side
Average
700 ft 210 m
all land inside township boundaries
Arbela Township spans about 160 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 | 710 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 790 ft240 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 630 ft190 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.9 mi south to north through the middle of Arbela Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Tuscola County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 2,770 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.5 sq mi
- Density
- 83 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.2589° N, 83.6373° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- ZIP codes 4
- 48415 48420 48746 48768
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Thetford Township770 ft
- Millington Township750 ft
- Millington750 ft
- Vienna Township730 ft
- Clio720 ft
- Arbela Township710 ft
- Vassar Township680 ft
- Tuscola Township660 ft
- Frankenmuth650 ft
- Birch Run Township640 ft
- Birch Run630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,354th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Tuscola County19th highest of 35
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); BTS time zones. All public domain.