Buena Vista, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
650 ft 200 m630 ft 195 m630 ft 190 m610 ft 185 m590 ft 180 m580 ft 180 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Buena Vista sits at about 610 ft (185 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
610 ft 185 m
most residents: 600–610 ft
Lowest
580 ft 180 m
on the north side
Highest
650 ft 200 m
on the south side
Average
600 ft 185 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Buena Vista spans about 70 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 | 610 ft185 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 650 ft200 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 580 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Buena Vista | 600 ft185 m |
| Airport (MBS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 668 ft204 m |
| Average of all land | 600 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Saginaw County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 5,855 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.0 sq mi
- Density
- 1,465 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.4203° N, 83.8986° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Mbs International (MBS) 668 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 48601
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Saginaw Township610 ft
- Buena Vista610 ft
- Buena Vista Township610 ft
- Bridgeport Township610 ft
- Bridgeport610 ft
- Saginaw610 ft
- Kochville Township600 ft
- Spaulding Township590 ft
- Carrollton Township590 ft
- Robin Glen-Indiantown590 ft
- Zilwaukee580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,830th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Saginaw County25th highest of 42
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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, 580 ft at 43.4562° N, 83.9032° 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.
- Buena Vista is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.