Clayton Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
840 ft 255 m800 ft 245 m790 ft 240 m760 ft 230 m730 ft 220 m710 ft 215 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
Clayton Township sits at about 760 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
760 ft 235 m
most residents: 750–780 ft
Lowest
710 ft 215 m
on the north side
Highest
840 ft 255 m
on the southwest side
Average
770 ft 235 m
all land inside township boundaries
Clayton Township spans about 130 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 | 760 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 840 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 710 ft215 m |
| Airport (FNT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.4 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 782 ft238 m |
| Average of all land | 770 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the middle of Clayton Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Charter township in Genesee County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 7,355 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 215 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.0047° N, 83.8616° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Misteguay River
- Airport
- Bishop International (FNT) 782 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 48433 48449 48473 48532
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mundy Township810 ft
- Durand790 ft
- Swartz Creek790 ft
- Lennon780 ft
- Venice Township770 ft
- Flint Township770 ft
- Flint760 ft
- Clayton Township760 ft
- Mount Morris Township760 ft
- Flushing730 ft
- Flushing Township710 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,114th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Genesee County26th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Holly1,240 ft
- Hog Island860 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.