Baraga County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,980 ft 605 m1,630 ft 500 m1,460 ft 445 m1,120 ft 340 m770 ft 235 m600 ft 185 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Baraga County averages about 1,340 ft (410 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 600 ft on the north side to 1,980 ft on Mount Curwood.
Average elevation
1,340 ft 410 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,980 ft 605 m
on Mount Curwood
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the north side
Baraga County spans about 1,380 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 | 1,340 ft410 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Mount Curwood (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 1,980 ft605 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 600 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
32 mi west to east through L'Anse Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Michigan, United States
- Population
- 8,169 2024 est.
- Land area
- 898.4 sq mi + 170.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 9.1 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Superior Upland 99%
- Drains to
- Great Lakes
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Iron County1,540 ft
- Baraga County1,340 ft
- Marquette County1,240 ft
- Houghton County1,030 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Michigan3rd highest of 83
- Counties in the United States969th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Curwood1,980 ft
- Mount Arvon1,980 ft
- Mount Kallio1,380 ft
- Pikes Peak, Baraga County1,160 ft
- Little Mountain1,150 ft
All 12 towns in Baraga County by typical elevation
- Spurr Township1,670 ft
- Three Lakes1,660 ft
- Covington1,610 ft
- Covington Township1,540 ft
- Zeba780 ft
- L'Anse Township740 ft
- Arvon Township730 ft
- Baraga Township730 ft
- Baraga730 ft
- L'Anse700 ft
- Skanee690 ft
- Pelkie670 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties 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 county 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 county.
- 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, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.