Brown City, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
840 ft 255 m830 ft 255 m820 ft 250 m820 ft 250 m810 ft 245 m800 ft 245 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Brown City sits at about 810 ft (250 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
810 ft 250 m
most residents: 810–830 ft
Lowest
800 ft 245 m
on the east side
Highest
840 ft 255 m
on the southwest side
Average
820 ft 250 m
all land inside city limits
Brown City spans about 40 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 | 810 ft250 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 840 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 800 ft245 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Brown City | 830 ft250 m |
| Airport (77G) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.9 mi northwest of the city limits | 895 ft273 m |
| Average of all land | 820 ft250 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Sanilac and Lapeer counties, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 1,292 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,139 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.2122° N, 82.9897° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Elk Creek → Black River → Niagara River
- Airport
- Marlette Township (77G) 895 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 48416
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Goodland Township840 ft
- Marlette840 ft
- Burnside Township830 ft
- Melvin820 ft
- Brown City810 ft
- Marlette Township810 ft
- Maple Valley Township, Sanilac County800 ft
- Lynn Township800 ft
- Flynn Township790 ft
- Peck780 ft
- Elk Township770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan880th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Sanilac County7th highest of 40
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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, 800 ft at 43.2112° N, 82.9749° 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. All public domain.