Columbia Township, Van Buren County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
820 ft 250 m770 ft 235 m750 ft 230 m710 ft 215 m660 ft 200 m640 ft 195 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
Columbia Township, Van Buren County sits at about 680 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
680 ft 210 m
most residents: 670–710 ft
Lowest
640 ft 195 m
on the southwest side
Highest
820 ft 250 m
on the southeast side
Average
690 ft 210 m
all land inside township boundaries
Columbia Township, Van Buren County spans about 180 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 | 680 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 820 ft250 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 640 ft195 m |
| Average of all land | 690 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Columbia Township, Van Buren County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Van Buren County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 2,554 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.9 sq mi + 1.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 75 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.3771° N, 86.0540° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- ZIP codes 4
- 49013 49026 49027 49056
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gobles810 ft
- Bloomingdale Township760 ft
- Bloomingdale740 ft
- Cheshire Township710 ft
- Arlington Township710 ft
- Columbia Township, Van Buren County680 ft
- Breedsville670 ft
- Bangor Township, Van Buren County660 ft
- Lee Township, Allegan County660 ft
- Bangor650 ft
- Geneva Township630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,435th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Van Buren County20th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Prospect Hill, Van Buren County890 ft
- Thunder Mountain, Van Buren County810 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.