Bedford Township, Calhoun County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
970 ft 295 m930 ft 285 m910 ft 275 m860 ft 265 m820 ft 250 m790 ft 240 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
Bedford Township, Calhoun County sits at about 870 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
870 ft 265 m
most residents: 820–920 ft
Lowest
790 ft 240 m
on the southwest side
Highest
970 ft 295 m
on the east side
Average
880 ft 270 m
all land inside township boundaries
Bedford Township, Calhoun County spans about 180 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 | 870 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 970 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 790 ft240 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bedford Township, Calhoun County | 890 ft270 m |
| Airport (BTL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.8 mi south of the township boundaries | 952 ft290 m |
| Average of all land | 880 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Charter township in Calhoun County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 9,154 2024 est.
- Land area
- 29.1 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 315 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.3953° N, 85.2322° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Kalamazoo River
- Airport
- Battle Creek Exec at Kellogg Field (BTL) 952 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 49012 49017 49037
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hickory Corners940 ft
- Johnstown Township940 ft
- Battle Creek900 ft
- Assyria Township900 ft
- Pennfield Township890 ft
- Springfield890 ft
- Ross Township890 ft
- Brownlee Park880 ft
- Bedford Township, Calhoun County870 ft
- Level Park-Oak Park830 ft
- Augusta810 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan672nd highest of 1,985
- Towns in Calhoun County28th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- The Hogback980 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.