Gogebic County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,870 ft 570 m1,550 ft 475 m1,390 ft 425 m1,080 ft 330 m760 ft 230 m600 ft 185 m

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USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
County area: Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Gogebic County averages about 1,470 ft (450 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 600 ft on the northwest side to 1,870 ft on the southeast side.

Average elevation

1,470 ft 450 m

all land inside the county

Highest

1,870 ft 570 m

on the southeast side

Lowest

600 ft 185 m

on the northwest side

Gogebic County spans about 1,270 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.

Figure	Elevation
Average of all land	1,470 ft450 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side	1,870 ft570 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side	600 ft185 m

Elevation profile, south to north

35 mi south to north through Ironwood.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Michigan, United States
Population: 14,217 2024 est.
Land area: 1,102.1 sq mi + 374.6 sq mi water
Density: 13 per sq mi
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Superior Upland
Drains to: Great Lakes

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Vilas County, WI1,670 ft
Iron County1,540 ft
Iron County, WI1,520 ft
Gogebic County1,470 ft
Ashland County, WI1,230 ft
Ontonagon County1,120 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Michigan2nd highest of 83
Counties in the United States870th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Wolf Mountain1,810 ft
Mount Zion1,722 ft
Alligator Eye1,690 ft
Big Powderhorn Mountain1,630 ft
Copper Peak1,550 ft

All 12 towns in Gogebic County by typical elevation

Watersmeet Township1,660 ft
Watersmeet1,600 ft
Wakefield Township1,570 ft
Wakefield1,540 ft
Erwin Township1,540 ft
Marenisco1,520 ft
Marenisco Township1,510 ft
Bessemer Township1,510 ft
Ironwood1,500 ft
Bessemer1,450 ft
Ramsay1,450 ft
Ironwood Township1,340 ft

How we measure

Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.