Bear Creek Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,300 ft 395 m1,120 ft 340 m1,030 ft 315 m850 ft 260 m670 ft 205 m580 ft 175 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
Bear Creek Township sits at about 830 ft (255 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
830 ft 255 m
most residents: 650–910 ft
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the north side
Highest
1,300 ft 395 m
on the southeast side
Average
820 ft 250 m
all land inside township boundaries
Bear Creek Township spans about 720 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 | 830 ft255 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 580 ft175 m |
| Airport (MGN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.8 mi north of the township boundaries | 686 ft209 m |
| Average of all land | 820 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Bear Creek Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Emmet County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 6,526 2024 est.
- Land area
- 39.6 sq mi + 6.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 165 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.3535° N, 84.9197° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Harbor Springs (MGN) 686 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 49713 49770
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bear Creek Township830 ft
- Resort Township810 ft
- Walloon Lake770 ft
- Melrose Township740 ft
- Little Traverse Township740 ft
- Petoskey720 ft
- Springvale Township700 ft
- Harbor Springs690 ft
- Oden630 ft
- Conway610 ft
- Bay View600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan814th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Emmet County4th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Emmet Heights1,320 ft
- Thunder Mountain, Charlevoix County1,270 ft
- Chandler Hill1,190 ft
- Mount Pisage1,180 ft
- Gray Hill1,130 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.