Farmington Hills, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
970 ft 295 m890 ft 270 m840 ft 260 m760 ft 230 m680 ft 205 m630 ft 195 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
Farmington Hills sits at about 810 ft (250 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
810 ft 250 m
most residents: 670–910 ft
Lowest
630 ft 195 m
on the southeast side
Highest
970 ft 295 m
on the northwest side
Average
810 ft 245 m
all land inside city limits
Farmington Hills spans about 340 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 | 810 ft250 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 970 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 630 ft195 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Farmington Hills | 850 ft260 m |
| Average of all land | 810 ft245 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Oakland County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 84,173 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.3 sq mi
- Density
- 2,530 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.4853° N, 83.3772° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- ZIP codes 5
- 48167 48331 48334 48335 48336
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- West Bloomfield Township950 ft
- Orchard Lake Village950 ft
- Walled Lake940 ft
- Novi940 ft
- Novi Township890 ft
- Northville870 ft
- Farmington Hills810 ft
- Franklin770 ft
- Farmington740 ft
- Southfield Township730 ft
- Bingham Farms720 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan883rd highest of 1,985
- Towns in Oakland County41st highest of 61
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Mountain, Oakland County1,130 ft
- Waterford Hill1,130 ft
- Mount Judah1,130 ft
- Haven Hill1,120 ft
- Teeple Hill1,100 ft
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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 630 ft at 42.4579° N, 83.3187° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.