Dickson Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,150 ft 350 m1,010 ft 310 m950 ft 290 m810 ft 245 m670 ft 205 m600 ft 185 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Dickson Township sits at about 730 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
730 ft 225 m
most residents: 710–870 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,150 ft 350 m
on the northeast side
Average
820 ft 250 m
all land inside township boundaries
Dickson Township spans about 550 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 | 730 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 600 ft185 m |
| Airport (MBL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.2 mi west of the township boundaries | 621 ft189 m |
| Average of all land | 820 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
12 mi west to east through the middle of Dickson Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Manistee County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 979 2024 est.
- Land area
- 69.5 sq mi + 2.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 14 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.3092° N, 85.9760° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Manistee River
- Airport
- Manistee County/Blacker (MBL) 621 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 49619 49625 49638 49645 49689
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Slagle Township1,040 ft
- Marilla Township940 ft
- Village of Bear Lake800 ft
- Bear Lake Township800 ft
- Norman Township780 ft
- Wellston770 ft
- Maple Grove Township, Manistee County750 ft
- Kaleva750 ft
- Brown Township740 ft
- Dickson Township730 ft
- Brethren730 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,252nd highest of 1,985
- Towns in Manistee County13th highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Briar Hill, Wexford County1,700 ft
- Twin Mountains1,140 ft
- Buck Hills1,130 ft
- North Hills1,090 ft
- Udell Hills1,050 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, 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.