Burr Oak Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,030 ft 315 m980 ft 300 m960 ft 290 m910 ft 280 m870 ft 265 m840 ft 255 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
Burr Oak Township sits at about 880 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
880 ft 270 m
most residents: 860–930 ft
Lowest
840 ft 255 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,030 ft 315 m
on the southwest side
Average
890 ft 270 m
all land inside township boundaries
Burr Oak Township spans about 190 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 | 880 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 840 ft255 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Burr Oak Township | 880 ft270 m |
| Airport (IRS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.6 mi west of the township boundaries | 925 ft282 m |
| Average of all land | 890 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in St. Joseph County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 2,657 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.3 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 75 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.8473° N, 85.3186° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Prairie River → Saint Joseph River
- Airport
- Kirsch Municipal (IRS) 925 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 49030 49091
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Greenfield Township, IN930 ft
- Sturgis920 ft
- Noble Township920 ft
- Bronson910 ft
- Bronson Township910 ft
- Fawn River Township910 ft
- Sherman Township890 ft
- Burr Oak Township880 ft
- Burr Oak880 ft
- Colon860 ft
- Colon Township860 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan635th highest of 1,985
- Towns in St. Joseph County5th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Colon Mountain970 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.