Clearwater Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,070 ft 325 m950 ft 290 m890 ft 270 m770 ft 235 m650 ft 200 m590 ft 180 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
Clearwater Township sits at about 650 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
650 ft 195 m
most residents: 600–950 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the west side
Highest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the southeast side
Average
770 ft 235 m
all land inside township boundaries
Clearwater Township spans about 480 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 | 650 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 590 ft180 m |
| Airport (Y89) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.3 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 1,029 ft314 m |
| Average of all land | 770 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.4 mi west to east through the middle of Clearwater Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Kalkaska County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 2,594 2024 est.
- Land area
- 31.2 sq mi + 2.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 83 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.8263° N, 85.2734° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Kalkaska City (Y89) 1,029 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 49612 49676 49690
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rapid River Township1,060 ft
- Kalkaska Township1,040 ft
- Kalkaska1,030 ft
- Custer Township, Antrim County900 ft
- Whitewater Township730 ft
- Helena Township690 ft
- Milton Township, Antrim County680 ft
- Clearwater Township650 ft
- Rapid City620 ft
- Alden620 ft
- Elk Rapids Township600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,598th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Kalkaska County16th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Twentyone Hill1,230 ft
- Mount Bundy1,180 ft
- Dingle Hill910 ft
- Carpenter Hill860 ft
- Old Baldy730 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 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.