Crystal Lake Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
980 ft 300 m880 ft 270 m830 ft 255 m730 ft 225 m630 ft 190 m580 ft 175 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Crystal Lake Township sits at about 710 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
710 ft 215 m
most residents: 610–900 ft
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the northwest side
Highest
980 ft 300 m
on the east side
Average
720 ft 220 m
all land inside township boundaries
Crystal Lake Township spans about 400 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 | 710 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 980 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 580 ft175 m |
| Airport (FKS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 633 ft193 m |
| Average of all land | 720 ft220 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.9 mi south to north through the middle of Crystal Lake Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Benzie County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 1,088 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.6 sq mi + 4.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 87 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.6367° N, 86.2074° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Frankfort Dow Memorial Field (FKS) 633 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 49635
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Crystal Downs Country Club780 ft
- Benzonia770 ft
- Gilmore Township, Benzie County740 ft
- Crystal Lake Township710 ft
- Benzonia Township710 ft
- Blaine Township680 ft
- Beulah660 ft
- Pilgrim630 ft
- Frankfort620 ft
- Elberta610 ft
- Lake Township, Benzie County600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,339th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Benzie County18th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Buck Hills1,130 ft
- Old Baldy Dune1,120 ft
- North Hills1,090 ft
- Turtle Lake Hill1,050 ft
- Tank Hill790 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.