Benzie County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,150 ft 350 m1,010 ft 310 m940 ft 285 m790 ft 240 m650 ft 200 m580 ft 175 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
County area: Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Benzie County averages about 790 ft (240 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 580 ft on the southeast side to 1,150 ft on the east side.

Average elevation

790 ft 240 m

all land inside the county

Highest

1,150 ft 350 m

on the east side

Lowest

580 ft 175 m

on the southeast side

Benzie County spans about 570 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.

Figure	Elevation
Average of all land	790 ft240 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the east side	1,150 ft350 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side	580 ft175 m

Elevation profile, west to east

46 mi west to east through Almira Township.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Michigan, United States
Population: 18,520 2024 est.
Land area: 319.7 sq mi + 539.9 sq mi water
Density: 58 per sq mi
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Great Lakes

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Grand Traverse County900 ft
Benzie County790 ft
Manistee County790 ft
Leelanau County760 ft
Kewaunee County, WI730 ft
Door County, WI670 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Michigan47th highest of 83
Counties in the United States1,824th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Buck Hills1,130 ft
Warner Hill1,120 ft
North Hills1,090 ft
Turtle Lake Hill1,050 ft
Tank Hill790 ft

All 26 towns in Benzie County by typical elevation

How we measure

Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.