Bear Lake Township, Kalkaska County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,470 ft 445 m1,370 ft 415 m1,320 ft 400 m1,220 ft 370 m1,120 ft 345 m1,070 ft 330 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
Bear Lake Township, Kalkaska County sits at about 1,210 ft (370 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,210 ft 370 m
most residents: 1,130–1,270 ft
Lowest
1,070 ft 330 m
on the south side
Highest
1,470 ft 445 m
on Cleary Hill
Average
1,190 ft 360 m
all land inside township boundaries
Bear Lake Township, Kalkaska County spans about 400 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 | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Cleary Hill | 1,470 ft445 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,070 ft330 m |
| Average of all land | 1,190 ft360 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
12 mi south to north through the middle of Bear Lake Township, Kalkaska County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Kalkaska County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 698 2024 est.
- Land area
- 71.0 sq mi + 1.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 9.8 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.7113° N, 84.9271° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Manistee River
- ZIP codes 3
- 49633 49646 49738
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Blue Lake Township, Kalkaska County1,280 ft
- Bear Lake1,240 ft
- Coldsprings Township1,230 ft
- Bear Lake Township, Kalkaska County1,210 ft
- Manistee Lake1,210 ft
- Frederic Township1,210 ft
- Excelsior Township1,200 ft
- Grayling Township1,150 ft
- Grayling1,140 ft
- Oliver Township, Kalkaska County1,130 ft
- Kalkaska Township1,040 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan105th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Kalkaska County4th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cleary Hill1,470 ft
- Falk Hill1,440 ft
- Beecher Hill1,350 ft
- Ester Hill1,350 ft
- Baker Hill1,280 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.