Cheshire Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
800 ft 245 m760 ft 230 m740 ft 225 m710 ft 215 m670 ft 205 m650 ft 200 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
Cheshire Township sits at about 710 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
710 ft 215 m
most residents: 680–750 ft
Lowest
650 ft 200 m
on the northwest side
Highest
800 ft 245 m
on the south side
Average
710 ft 215 m
all land inside township boundaries
Cheshire Township spans about 150 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 | 710 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 800 ft245 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 650 ft200 m |
| Airport (35D) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.1 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 706 ft215 m |
| Average of all land | 710 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Cheshire Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Allegan County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 2,236 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.8 sq mi + 1.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 64 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.4583° N, 85.9492° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Kalamazoo River
- Airport
- Padgham Field (35D) 706 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 49010 49026 49055 49056 49450
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gobles810 ft
- Pine Grove Township790 ft
- Bloomingdale Township760 ft
- Bloomingdale740 ft
- Trowbridge Township740 ft
- Cheshire Township710 ft
- Allegan Township710 ft
- Allegan690 ft
- Columbia Township, Van Buren County680 ft
- Valley Township680 ft
- Lee Township, Allegan County660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,344th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Allegan County16th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Prospect Hill, Van Buren County890 ft
- Mount Baldhead810 ft
- Beach Hill800 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, 650 ft at 42.5057° N, 85.9946° 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.