Crawford County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,540 ft 470 m1,400 ft 430 m1,340 ft 410 m1,200 ft 365 m1,070 ft 325 m1,000 ft 305 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
County area: Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Crawford County averages about 1,210 ft (370 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,000 ft on the east side to 1,540 ft on the southwest side.

Average elevation

1,210 ft 370 m

all land inside the county

Highest

1,540 ft 470 m

on the southwest side

Lowest

1,000 ft 305 m

on the east side

Crawford County spans about 540 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.

Figure	Elevation
Average of all land	1,210 ft370 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side	1,540 ft470 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side	1,000 ft305 m

Elevation profile, south to north

24 mi south to north through Grayling Township.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Michigan, United States
Population: 13,599 2024 est.
Land area: 556.4 sq mi + 6.9 sq mi water
Density: 24 per sq mi
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Great Lakes

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Otsego County1,220 ft
Crawford County1,210 ft
Roscommon County1,170 ft
Oscoda County1,130 ft
Kalkaska County1,110 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Michigan6th highest of 83
Counties in the United States1,105th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Cote Dame Marie1,520 ft
Three Sisters Range1,480 ft
Westenage Hill1,480 ft
Sinke Hill1,440 ft
Toll Hill1,430 ft

All 7 towns in Crawford County by typical elevation

How we measure

Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.