Burnside Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m990 ft 300 m950 ft 290 m890 ft 270 m820 ft 250 m780 ft 240 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
Burnside Township sits at about 830 ft (255 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
830 ft 255 m
most residents: 810–880 ft
Lowest
780 ft 240 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the southeast side
Average
840 ft 255 m
all land inside township boundaries
Burnside Township spans about 270 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 | 830 ft255 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 780 ft240 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Burnside Township | 850 ft260 m |
| Airport (77G) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.9 mi north of the township boundaries | 895 ft273 m |
| Average of all land | 840 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lapeer County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 1,910 2024 est.
- Land area
- 53.4 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 36 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.2106° N, 83.0772° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- South Branch Cass River → White Creek → Cass River
- Airport
- Marlette Township (77G) 895 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 48416 48444 48453 48461
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Arcadia Township880 ft
- Goodland Township840 ft
- Marlette840 ft
- Burnside Township830 ft
- Clifford830 ft
- Burlington Township, Lapeer County830 ft
- North Branch Township830 ft
- Brown City810 ft
- North Branch810 ft
- Marlette Township810 ft
- Maple Valley Township, Sanilac County800 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan811th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Lapeer County16th highest of 30
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, 780 ft at 43.2810° N, 83.0079° 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.