Decatur, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
810 ft 245 m790 ft 240 m790 ft 240 m770 ft 235 m750 ft 230 m740 ft 225 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Decatur sits at about 780 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
780 ft 240 m
most residents: 760–790 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the south side
Highest
810 ft 245 m
on the northeast side
Average
780 ft 235 m
all land inside village limits
Decatur spans about 70 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 | 780 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northeast side | 810 ft245 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the south side | 740 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Decatur | 790 ft240 m |
| Average of all land | 780 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Van Buren County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 1,660 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.4 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,229 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.1081° N, 85.9745° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Dowagiac River
- ZIP codes 1
- 49045
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Porter Township, Van Buren County920 ft
- Volinia Township900 ft
- Lawton790 ft
- Wayne Township790 ft
- Decatur780 ft
- Decatur Township780 ft
- Hamilton Township, Van Buren County770 ft
- Paw Paw Township740 ft
- Paw Paw740 ft
- Lawrence Township730 ft
- Lawrence690 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,019th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Van Buren County9th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Hill, Cass County1,170 ft
- Mount Misery1,090 ft
- Prospect Hill, Van Buren County890 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 village 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.