Bliss Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,040 ft 320 m930 ft 285 m870 ft 265 m750 ft 230 m640 ft 195 m580 ft 175 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
Bliss Township sits at about 820 ft (250 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
820 ft 250 m
most residents: 620–960 ft
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,040 ft 320 m
on the southeast side
Average
700 ft 215 m
all land inside township boundaries
Bliss Township spans about 460 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 | 820 ft250 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,040 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 580 ft175 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bliss Township | 770 ft235 m |
| Airport (PLN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.3 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 721 ft220 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Emmet County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 567 2024 est.
- Land area
- 43.7 sq mi + 2.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 13 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.6803° N, 84.8842° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Pellston Regional/Emmet County (PLN) 721 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 49718 49755
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Readmond Township900 ft
- Bliss Township820 ft
- Center Township800 ft
- Levering760 ft
- Carp Lake Township730 ft
- Carp Lake730 ft
- McKinley Township700 ft
- Pellston700 ft
- Cross Village Township690 ft
- Cross Village670 ft
- Wawatam Township610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan851st highest of 1,985
- Towns in Emmet County5th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Pisage1,180 ft
- Island View Hill1,170 ft
- McCort Hill790 ft
- Billiau Hill790 ft
- Mount Nebo700 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 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.