Brighton Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,200 ft 365 m1,120 ft 340 m1,080 ft 330 m1,000 ft 305 m910 ft 280 m870 ft 265 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
Brighton Township sits at about 960 ft (290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
960 ft 290 m
most residents: 930–990 ft
Lowest
870 ft 265 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,200 ft 365 m
on the east side
Average
960 ft 295 m
all land inside township boundaries
Brighton Township spans about 330 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 | 960 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 870 ft265 m |
| Airport (45G) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 973 ft297 m |
| Average of all land | 960 ft295 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.1 mi west to east through the middle of Brighton Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Livingston County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 19,519 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.0 sq mi + 1.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 592 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.5571° N, 83.7462° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Huron River → Niagara River
- Airport
- Brighton (45G) 973 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 48114 48116 48380
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hartland Township1,000 ft
- Hartland990 ft
- Milford Township980 ft
- Milford970 ft
- Genoa Township960 ft
- Brighton Township960 ft
- Brighton940 ft
- South Lyon930 ft
- Whitmore Lake910 ft
- Green Oak Township900 ft
- Hamburg Township890 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan392nd highest of 1,985
- Towns in Livingston County5th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Waterford Hill1,130 ft
- Haven Hill1,120 ft
- Teeple Hill1,100 ft
- Peach Mountain1,040 ft
- Prospect Hill, Washtenaw County981 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, 870 ft at 42.5179° N, 83.7076° 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, 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.