Bessemer, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,790 ft 545 m1,680 ft 510 m1,620 ft 495 m1,510 ft 460 m1,400 ft 425 m1,350 ft 410 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bessemer sits at about 1,450 ft (445 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,450 ft 445 m
most residents: 1,410–1,530 ft
Lowest
1,350 ft 410 m
on the north side
Highest
1,790 ft 545 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,510 ft 460 m
all land inside city limits
Bessemer spans about 440 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 | 1,450 ft445 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,790 ft545 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,350 ft410 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bessemer | 1,430 ft435 m |
| Airport (IWD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.5 mi northwest of the city limits | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Average of all land | 1,510 ft460 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Gogebic County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 1,780 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.5 sq mi
- Density
- 324 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.4813° N, 90.0530° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Saint Marys River → Niagara River
- Airport
- Gogebic/Iron County (IWD) 1,230 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 49911
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wakefield Township1,570 ft
- Montreal, WI1,540 ft
- Carey, WI1,540 ft
- Wakefield1,540 ft
- Erwin Township1,540 ft
- Bessemer Township1,510 ft
- Ironwood1,500 ft
- Hurley, WI1,490 ft
- Bessemer1,450 ft
- Ramsay1,450 ft
- Ironwood Township1,340 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan34th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Gogebic County10th highest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Wolf Mountain1,810 ft
- Mount Zion1,722 ft
- Big Powderhorn Mountain1,630 ft
- Copper Peak1,550 ft
- Point Mountain1,240 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.