Bay Mills Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,090 ft 330 m970 ft 295 m910 ft 275 m780 ft 240 m660 ft 200 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bay Mills Township sits at about 640 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
640 ft 195 m
most residents: 600–720 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the east side
Highest
1,090 ft 330 m
on the west side
Average
770 ft 235 m
all land inside township boundaries
Bay Mills Township spans about 490 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 | 640 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,090 ft330 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 600 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bay Mills Township | 610 ft185 m |
| Airport (CIU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi south of the township boundaries | 799 ft244 m |
| Average of all land | 770 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
20 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Chippewa County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 1,630 2024 est.
- Land area
- 64.7 sq mi + 33.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 25 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.4372° N, 84.5839° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Saint Marys River → Niagara River
- Airport
- Chippewa County International (CIU) 799 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 49715 49728
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kincheloe790 ft
- Kinross Township780 ft
- Rudyard Township690 ft
- Soo Township680 ft
- Dafter Township670 ft
- Superior Township, Chippewa County650 ft
- Brimley650 ft
- Bruce Township, Chippewa County640 ft
- Bay Mills Township640 ft
- Sault Ste. Marie630 ft
- Sugar Island Township620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,646th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Chippewa County15th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mission Hill1,020 ft
- Velvet Hill680 ft
- Oneway Hill670 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, 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.