Chester Township, Otsego County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,420 ft 435 m1,350 ft 410 m1,310 ft 400 m1,240 ft 380 m1,170 ft 355 m1,130 ft 345 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Chester Township, Otsego County sits at about 1,290 ft (395 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,290 ft 395 m
most residents: 1,240–1,320 ft
Lowest
1,130 ft 345 m
on the north side
Highest
1,420 ft 435 m
on Redner Hill
Average
1,270 ft 385 m
all land inside township boundaries
Chester Township, Otsego County spans about 290 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 | 1,290 ft395 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Redner Hill | 1,420 ft435 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Airport (GLR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi west of the township boundaries | 1,328 ft405 m |
| Average of all land | 1,270 ft385 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
12 mi south to north through the middle of Chester Township, Otsego County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Otsego County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 1,351 2024 est.
- Land area
- 67.6 sq mi + 1.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 20 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.9794° N, 84.5376° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Pigeon River
- Airport
- Gaylord Regional (GLR) 1,328 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 49733 49735 49738 49751
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Otsego Lake Township1,350 ft
- Gaylord1,350 ft
- Hayes Township, Otsego County1,330 ft
- Vienna Township, Montmorency County1,330 ft
- Bagley Township1,310 ft
- Livingston Township1,300 ft
- Chester Township, Otsego County1,290 ft
- Charlton Township1,280 ft
- Dover Township, Otsego County1,170 ft
- Lovells Township1,150 ft
- Corwith Township1,100 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan74th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Otsego County7th highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Comstock Hills1,440 ft
- Toll Hill1,430 ft
- Redner Hill1,420 ft
- Bald Hill, Crawford County1,400 ft
- Rosecrans Hill1,360 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, 1,130 ft at 45.0271° N, 84.5135° 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.