Brown Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
940 ft 285 m850 ft 260 m810 ft 245 m720 ft 220 m630 ft 195 m590 ft 180 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
Brown Township sits at about 740 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
740 ft 225 m
most residents: 650–790 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the southwest side
Highest
940 ft 285 m
on the east side
Average
710 ft 215 m
all land inside township boundaries
Brown Township spans about 350 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 | 740 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 940 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 590 ft180 m |
| Airport (MBL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.2 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 621 ft189 m |
| Average of all land | 710 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Brown Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Manistee County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 701 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.6 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 20 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.3081° N, 86.1324° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Manistee River
- Airport
- Manistee County/Blacker (MBL) 621 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 49619 49645 49660
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Village of Bear Lake800 ft
- Bear Lake Township800 ft
- Maple Grove Township, Manistee County750 ft
- Kaleva750 ft
- Brown Township740 ft
- Dickson Township730 ft
- Brethren730 ft
- Manistee Township660 ft
- Onekama Township650 ft
- Onekama620 ft
- Parkdale600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,213th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Manistee County12th highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Buck Hills1,130 ft
- Udell Hills1,050 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, 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.