Bismarck Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
940 ft 285 m900 ft 275 m880 ft 265 m840 ft 255 m790 ft 240 m770 ft 235 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
Bismarck Township sits at about 840 ft (255 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
840 ft 255 m
most residents: 800–850 ft
Lowest
770 ft 235 m
on the northwest side
Highest
940 ft 285 m
on the south side
Average
830 ft 255 m
all land inside township boundaries
Bismarck Township spans about 170 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 | 840 ft255 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 940 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 770 ft235 m |
| Airport (PZQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.2 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 670 ft204 m |
| Average of all land | 830 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
12 mi south to north through the middle of Bismarck Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Presque Isle County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 360 2024 est.
- Land area
- 67.5 sq mi + 2.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 5.3 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.3046° N, 83.9339° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Presque Isle County (PZQ) 670 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 49743 49759 49779
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bismarck Township840 ft
- Moltke Township820 ft
- Montmorency Township820 ft
- Case Township800 ft
- Millersburg800 ft
- Belknap Township790 ft
- Metz Township780 ft
- Pulawski Township760 ft
- Ocqueoc Township660 ft
- Rogers Township650 ft
- Rogers City610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan806th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Presque Isle County2nd highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Manning Hill920 ft
- Black Mountain920 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 770 ft at 45.2710° N, 83.8857° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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 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.