Forest Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
930 ft 285 m880 ft 270 m860 ft 265 m820 ft 250 m770 ft 235 m750 ft 230 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
Forest Township sits at about 820 ft (250 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
820 ft 250 m
most residents: 790–850 ft
Lowest
750 ft 230 m
on the southwest side
Highest
930 ft 285 m
on the northeast side
Average
820 ft 250 m
all land inside township boundaries
Forest Township spans about 180 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 | 820 ft250 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 930 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 750 ft230 m |
| Average of all land | 820 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.1 mi west to east through the middle of Forest Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Genesee County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 4,373 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.7 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 122 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.1740° N, 83.5210° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Flint River
- ZIP codes 5
- 48421 48458 48463 48464 48746
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Otter Lake870 ft
- Forest Township820 ft
- Oregon Township820 ft
- Marathon Township810 ft
- Otisville810 ft
- Richfield Township790 ft
- Columbiaville780 ft
- Thetford Township770 ft
- Genesee Township760 ft
- Millington Township750 ft
- Millington750 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan861st highest of 1,985
- Towns in Genesee County12th highest of 34
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).
- 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, 750 ft at 43.1426° N, 83.5790° 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.