Dearborn Heights, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
640 ft 195 m630 ft 190 m620 ft 190 m610 ft 185 m590 ft 180 m580 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Dearborn Heights sits at about 620 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
620 ft 190 m
most residents: 600–630 ft
Lowest
580 ft 180 m
on the east side
Highest
640 ft 195 m
on the west side
Average
620 ft 190 m
all land inside city limits
Dearborn Heights spans about 60 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 | 620 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 640 ft195 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 580 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dearborn Heights | 620 ft190 m |
| Airport (DTW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.5 mi southwest of the city limits | 645 ft197 m |
| Average of all land | 620 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Wayne County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 61,040 2024 est.
- Land area
- 11.7 sq mi
- Density
- 5,201 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.3370° N, 83.2733° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- Airport
- Detroit Metro Wayne County (DTW) 645 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 48125 48127
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Livonia660 ft
- Westland660 ft
- Wayne650 ft
- Garden City640 ft
- Redford Township630 ft
- Inkster630 ft
- Dearborn Heights620 ft
- Taylor610 ft
- Dearborn600 ft
- Allen Park600 ft
- Melvindale590 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,767th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Wayne County18th highest of 42
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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.