Dickinson County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,610 ft 490 m1,410 ft 430 m1,310 ft 400 m1,110 ft 335 m900 ft 275 m800 ft 245 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Dickinson County averages about 1,180 ft (360 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 800 ft on the south side to 1,610 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
1,180 ft 360 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,610 ft 490 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
800 ft 245 m
on the south side
Dickinson County spans about 810 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 | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 1,610 ft490 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 800 ft245 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
21 mi west to east through Iron Mountain.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Michigan, United States
- Population
- 25,995 2024 est.
- Land area
- 761.0 sq mi + 15.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 34 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Great Lakes
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Iron County1,540 ft
- Florence County, WI1,390 ft
- Marquette County1,240 ft
- Dickinson County1,180 ft
- Marinette County, WI900 ft
- Menominee County790 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Michigan8th highest of 83
- Counties in the United States1,142nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Millie Hill1,570 ft
- Pine Mountain, Dickinson County1,520 ft
- Trader Hill1,470 ft
- Brier Hill1,330 ft
- Iron Hill1,200 ft
All 11 towns in Dickinson County by typical elevation
- Sagola Township1,400 ft
- Felch Township1,190 ft
- West Branch Township, Dickinson County1,180 ft
- Iron Mountain1,170 ft
- Kingsford1,120 ft
- Breitung Township1,120 ft
- Breen Township1,090 ft
- Quinnesec1,040 ft
- Norway960 ft
- Norway Township950 ft
- Waucedah Township910 ft
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.