Buena Vista Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
650 ft 200 m630 ft 190 m620 ft 190 m600 ft 185 m580 ft 180 m570 ft 175 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
Buena Vista Township 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: 590–610 ft
Lowest
570 ft 175 m
on the north side
Highest
650 ft 200 m
near the middle
Average
590 ft 180 m
all land inside township boundaries
Buena Vista Township spans about 80 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 township boundaries, near the middle | 650 ft200 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 570 ft175 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Buena Vista Township | 600 ft185 m |
| Airport (MBS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.1 mi northwest of the township boundaries | 668 ft204 m |
| Average of all land | 590 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Charter township in Saginaw County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 7,484 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.5 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 211 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 2
- 48601 48708
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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 Michigan1,833rd highest of 1,985
- Towns in Saginaw County26th highest of 42
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, 550 ft at 43.4660° N, 83.9018° 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 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.