Gaines Township, Genesee County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
880 ft 270 m850 ft 260 m830 ft 255 m800 ft 245 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
Gaines Township, Genesee County sits at about 810 ft (245 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
810 ft 245 m
most residents: 780–840 ft
Lowest
750 ft 230 m
on the northeast side
Highest
880 ft 270 m
near the middle
Average
810 ft 245 m
all land inside township boundaries
Gaines Township, Genesee County spans about 130 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 ft245 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, near the middle | 880 ft270 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 750 ft230 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gaines Township, Genesee County | 860 ft260 m |
| Airport (FNT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.4 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 782 ft238 m |
| Average of all land | 810 ft245 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Genesee County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 6,633 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 189 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.8725° N, 83.9141° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Shiawassee River
- Airport
- Bishop International (FNT) 782 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 48429 48436 48473
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Argentine870 ft
- Argentine Township860 ft
- Gaines860 ft
- Bancroft850 ft
- Burns Township850 ft
- Byron840 ft
- Gaines Township, Genesee County810 ft
- Durand790 ft
- Swartz Creek790 ft
- Vernon Township790 ft
- Vernon780 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan914th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Genesee County15th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Holly1,240 ft
- Hog Island860 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.