Big Creek Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,410 ft 430 m1,290 ft 395 m1,230 ft 375 m1,110 ft 340 m990 ft 300 m930 ft 285 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
Big Creek Township sits at about 1,040 ft (315 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,040 ft 315 m
most residents: 1,020–1,210 ft
Lowest
930 ft 285 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,410 ft 430 m
on the south side
Average
1,150 ft 350 m
all land inside township boundaries
Big Creek Township spans about 480 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 | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,410 ft430 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 930 ft285 m |
| Airport (51M) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.4 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 1,033 ft315 m |
| Average of all land | 1,150 ft350 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
12 mi west to east through the middle of Big Creek Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Oscoda County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 2,721 2024 est.
- Land area
- 141.7 sq mi + 1.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 19 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.6375° N, 84.1872° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Au Sable River
- Airport
- Oscoda County/Dennis Kauffman Memorial (51M) 1,033 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 48636 48647 48654 49756
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Greenwood Township, Oscoda County1,220 ft
- Au Sable Township, Roscommon County1,180 ft
- Elmer Township1,150 ft
- Comins Township1,140 ft
- Rose Township, Ogemaw County1,050 ft
- Clinton Township, Oscoda County1,050 ft
- Big Creek Township1,040 ft
- Mentor Township1,030 ft
- Mio1,020 ft
- Rose City980 ft
- Lupton920 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan267th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Oscoda County5th highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Wagon Wheel Hill1,490 ft
- Mount Tom1,460 ft
- Brants Hill1,340 ft
- Mio Mountain1,290 ft
- Timberline Mountain1,280 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.