Columbus Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
740 ft 225 m710 ft 215 m700 ft 210 m660 ft 200 m630 ft 195 m620 ft 190 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
Columbus Township sits at about 660 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
660 ft 200 m
most residents: 640–710 ft
Lowest
620 ft 190 m
on the south side
Highest
740 ft 225 m
on the west side
Average
670 ft 205 m
all land inside township boundaries
Columbus Township spans about 120 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 | 660 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 740 ft225 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 620 ft190 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Columbus Township | 670 ft205 m |
| Airport (PHN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.6 mi east of the township boundaries | 650 ft198 m |
| Average of all land | 670 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in St. Clair County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 4,267 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.6 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 116 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.8823° N, 82.6624° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- Airport
- St Clair County International (PHN) 650 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 48063
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Emmett Township, St. Clair County790 ft
- Riley Township780 ft
- Emmett770 ft
- Memphis760 ft
- Richmond Township750 ft
- Richmond730 ft
- Wales Township700 ft
- Columbus Township660 ft
- Kimball Township640 ft
- Casco Township640 ft
- St. Clair Township630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,535th highest of 1,985
- Towns in St. Clair County16th highest of 34
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.