Bay Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,000 ft 305 m890 ft 270 m840 ft 255 m740 ft 225 m630 ft 195 m580 ft 175 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bay Township sits at about 760 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
760 ft 235 m
most residents: 630–900 ft
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,000 ft 305 m
on the southeast side
Average
760 ft 235 m
all land inside township boundaries
Bay Township spans about 420 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 | 760 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 580 ft175 m |
| Airport (N98) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.7 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 660 ft201 m |
| Average of all land | 760 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.9 mi west to east through the middle of Bay Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Charlevoix County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 1,141 2024 est.
- Land area
- 15.5 sq mi + 3.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 73 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.2923° N, 85.0680° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Boyne City Municipal (N98) 660 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 49712 49720 49770
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Evangeline Township880 ft
- Resort Township810 ft
- Walloon Lake770 ft
- Bay Township760 ft
- Advance690 ft
- Horton Bay690 ft
- Hayes Township, Charlevoix County680 ft
- Bay Shore680 ft
- Eveline Township680 ft
- Boyne City640 ft
- Ironton630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,112th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Charlevoix County6th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Thunder Mountain, Charlevoix County1,270 ft
- Boyne Mountain1,150 ft
- Richardson Hill1,080 ft
- Avalanche Mountain1,010 ft
- Mount McSauba750 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.