Chocolay Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,120 ft 340 m990 ft 300 m920 ft 280 m790 ft 240 m660 ft 205 m600 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
Chocolay Township sits at about 640 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
640 ft 195 m
most residents: 610–720 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,120 ft 340 m
on the southwest side
Average
700 ft 210 m
all land inside township boundaries
Chocolay Township spans about 520 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 | 640 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 600 ft185 m |
| Airport (SAW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.1 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 1,205 ft367 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.9 mi south to north through the middle of Chocolay Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Charter township in Marquette County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 6,018 2024 est.
- Land area
- 59.0 sq mi + 1.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 102 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.4690° N, 87.3000° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Saint Marys River → Niagara River
- Airport
- Marquette Sawyer Regional (SAW) 1,205 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 49822 49855 49885
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Negaunee Township1,380 ft
- K. I. Sawyer1,170 ft
- West Branch Township, Marquette County1,160 ft
- Forsyth Township1,150 ft
- Skandia Township1,060 ft
- Sands Township940 ft
- Marquette Township790 ft
- Trowbridge Park780 ft
- Marquette690 ft
- Harvey670 ft
- Chocolay Township640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,633rd highest of 1,985
- Towns in Marquette Countylowest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Wewe Hills1,630 ft
- Kona Hills1,460 ft
- Ragged Hills1,440 ft
- Mount Mesnard1,120 ft
- Sugarloaf Mountain, Marquette County1,070 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).
- 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.