Chippewa County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Chippewa County, Michigan, shaded from 580 ft on the shore of Lake Huron to 1,090 ft on the west side
Elevation
1,090 ft 330 m960 ft 295 m900 ft 275 m770 ft 235 m640 ft 195 m580 ft 175 m
Zoom in for contour lines
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
⤓ Download this map
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.
County area
Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Chippewa County averages about 720 ft (220 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 580 ft on the shore of Lake Huron to 1,090 ft on the west side.

Average elevation
720 ft 220 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,090 ft 330 m
on the west side
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the shore of Lake Huron

Chippewa County spans about 510 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.

FigureElevation
Average of all land720 ft220 m
Highest point
Inside the county, on the west side
1,090 ft330 m
Lowest point
Inside the county, on the shore of Lake Huron
580 ft175 m

Elevation profile, west to east

53 mi west to east through Sault Ste. Marie.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Chippewa County, Michigan, shaded from 580 ft on the shore of Lake Huron to 1,090 ft on the west side
County boundary (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 100 ft (30 m).
Location
County in Michigan, United States
Population
36,253 2024 est.
Land area
1,558.5 sq mi + 1,140.0 sq mi water
Density
23 per sq mi
Time zone
Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region
Central Lowland 98%
Drains to
Great Lakes
⤓ Download this map

WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

  1. Luce County770 ft
  2. Presque Isle County750 ft
  3. Chippewa County720 ft
  4. Mackinac County720 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Peaks and hills highest inside

  • Mission Hill1,020 ft
  • Velvet Hill680 ft
  • Oneway Hill670 ft
  • Moon Hill670 ft
All 20 towns in Chippewa County by typical elevation
  1. Chippewa Township, Chippewa County860 ft
  2. Trout Lake Township830 ft
  3. Kincheloe790 ft
  4. Kinross Township780 ft
  5. Hulbert Township770 ft
  6. Rudyard Township690 ft
  7. Pickford Township690 ft
  8. Soo Township680 ft
  9. Dafter Township670 ft
  10. Raber Township670 ft
  11. Superior Township, Chippewa County650 ft
  12. Brimley650 ft
  13. Bruce Township, Chippewa County640 ft
  14. Detour Township640 ft
  15. Bay Mills Township640 ft
  16. Whitefish Township630 ft
  17. Sault Ste. Marie630 ft
  18. Sugar Island Township620 ft
  19. Drummond Township610 ft
  20. De Tour Village610 ft
How we measure
  • Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
  • Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
  • 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, 570 ft at 45.9610° N, 83.7832° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
  • Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
  • Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
  • 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.