Cascade Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
880 ft 265 m810 ft 245 m780 ft 235 m710 ft 215 m650 ft 195 m610 ft 185 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
Cascade Township 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: 690–780 ft
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the northeast side
Highest
880 ft 265 m
on the east side
Average
760 ft 230 m
all land inside township boundaries
Cascade 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 | 740 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 880 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 610 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cascade Township | 660 ft200 m |
| Airport (GRR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 794 ft242 m |
| Average of all land | 760 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Charter township in Kent County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 20,172 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.9 sq mi + 1.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 596 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.9123° N, 85.4981° 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 4
- 49301 49302 49512 49546
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Vergennes Township790 ft
- Caledonia Township790 ft
- Grand Rapids Township780 ft
- Lowell Township770 ft
- East Grand Rapids760 ft
- Gaines Township750 ft
- Ada Township750 ft
- Cascade Township740 ft
- Forest Hills740 ft
- Kentwood740 ft
- Lowell640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,202nd highest of 1,985
- Towns in Kent County26th highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dias Hill1,041 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).
- 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, 610 ft at 42.9282° N, 85.4418° 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.