Ferndale, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
670 ft 205 m660 ft 200 m660 ft 200 m640 ft 195 m630 ft 195 m630 ft 190 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ferndale sits at about 640 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
640 ft 195 m
most residents: 640–670 ft
Lowest
630 ft 190 m
on the southeast side
Highest
670 ft 205 m
on the southwest side
Average
650 ft 195 m
all land inside city limits
Ferndale spans about 40 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 | 640 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 670 ft205 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 630 ft190 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ferndale | 650 ft195 m |
| Airport (VLL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.2 mi north of the city limits | 727 ft222 m |
| Average of all land | 650 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Oakland County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 19,431 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.9 sq mi
- Density
- 5,012 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.4606° N, 83.1346° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- Airport
- Oakland/Troy (VLL) 727 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 48220
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Berkley680 ft
- Southfield680 ft
- Oak Park670 ft
- Royal Oak Township670 ft
- Huntington Woods660 ft
- Royal Oak660 ft
- Pleasant Ridge650 ft
- Ferndale640 ft
- Highland Park640 ft
- Madison Heights630 ft
- Hazel Park630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,618th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Oakland County59th highest of 61
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.