Forsyth Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,410 ft 430 m1,300 ft 395 m1,250 ft 380 m1,150 ft 350 m1,040 ft 315 m990 ft 300 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Forsyth Township sits at about 1,150 ft (350 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,150 ft 350 m
most residents: 1,100–1,190 ft
Lowest
990 ft 300 m
on the east side
Highest
1,410 ft 430 m
on the west side
Average
1,140 ft 350 m
all land inside township boundaries
Forsyth Township spans about 420 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 | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,410 ft430 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 990 ft300 m |
| Airport (SAW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,205 ft367 m |
| Average of all land | 1,140 ft350 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
18 mi west to east through the middle of Forsyth Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Marquette County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 6,298 2024 est.
- Land area
- 177.8 sq mi + 5.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 35 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.2936° N, 87.4037° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Escanaba River
- Airport
- Marquette Sawyer Regional (SAW) 1,205 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 49833 49841 49866 49880 49885
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Palmer1,300 ft
- Richmond Township, Marquette County1,300 ft
- K. I. Sawyer1,170 ft
- West Branch Township, Marquette County1,160 ft
- Forsyth Township1,150 ft
- Gwinn1,110 ft
- Skandia Township1,060 ft
- Turin Township1,060 ft
- Sands Township940 ft
- Harvey670 ft
- Chocolay Township640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan159th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Marquette County18th highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Summit Mountain1,850 ft
- Green Hills1,690 ft
- Wewe Hills1,630 ft
- Kona Hills1,460 ft
- Ragged Hills1,440 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.