Gilead Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,030 ft 315 m1,000 ft 305 m990 ft 300 m970 ft 295 m940 ft 290 m930 ft 285 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Gilead Township sits at about 960 ft (295 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

960 ft 295 m

most residents: 950–980 ft

Lowest

930 ft 285 m

on the northeast side

Highest

1,030 ft 315 m

on the southeast side

Average

970 ft 295 m

all land inside township boundaries

Gilead Township spans about 100 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	960 ft295 m
Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side	1,030 ft315 m
Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side	930 ft285 m
Town center USGS map point for Gilead Township	960 ft295 m
Average of all land	970 ft295 m

Elevation profile, south to north

3.6 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Township in Branch County, Michigan, United States
Population: 662 2024 est.
Land area: 21.1 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
Density: 31 per sq mi
Coordinates: 41.8009° N, 85.1555° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Prairie River → Saint Joseph River
ZIP codes 1: 49028

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Michigan382nd highest of 1,985
Towns in Branch County10th highest of 21

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Colon Mountain970 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.