Byron Center, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
790 ft 240 m760 ft 230 m750 ft 230 m720 ft 220 m700 ft 215 m690 ft 210 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
Byron Center 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: 710–760 ft
Lowest
690 ft 210 m
on the southeast side
Highest
780 ft 240 m
on the southwest side
Average
740 ft 225 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Byron Center spans about 90 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 the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 780 ft240 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 690 ft210 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Byron Center | 750 ft225 m |
| Airport (GRR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.9 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 794 ft242 m |
| Average of all land | 740 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Kent County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 7,431 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,462 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.8123° N, 85.7228° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Grand River
- Airport
- Gerald R Ford International (GRR) 794 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 49315
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gaines Township750 ft
- Byron Center740 ft
- Kentwood740 ft
- Jamestown Township730 ft
- Dorr Township710 ft
- Dorr710 ft
- Byron Township710 ft
- Cutlerville680 ft
- Wyoming680 ft
- Jenison650 ft
- Grandville620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,215th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Kent County28th highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dias Hill1,041 ft
- Beach Hill800 ft
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, 690 ft at 42.8032° N, 85.7049° 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.
- Byron Center is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.