Boston Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
910 ft 280 m840 ft 255 m800 ft 245 m730 ft 220 m650 ft 200 m620 ft 190 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
Boston Township sits at about 750 ft (230 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
750 ft 230 m
most residents: 650–850 ft
Lowest
620 ft 190 m
on the northwest side
Highest
910 ft 280 m
on the west side
Average
780 ft 240 m
all land inside township boundaries
Boston Township spans about 290 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 | 750 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 910 ft280 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 620 ft190 m |
| Airport (GRR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi west of the township boundaries | 794 ft242 m |
| Average of all land | 780 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Boston Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Ionia County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 6,084 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.1 sq mi + 0.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 173 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.9060° N, 85.2428° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Grand River
- Airport
- Gerald R Ford International (GRR) 794 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 48815 48881 49331
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Keene Township830 ft
- Campbell Township830 ft
- Clarksville820 ft
- Berlin Township, Ionia County810 ft
- Bowne Township810 ft
- Vergennes Township790 ft
- Easton Township780 ft
- Lowell Township770 ft
- Boston Township750 ft
- Saranac680 ft
- Lowell640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,147th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Ionia County20th highest of 27
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.