Grand Rapids Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
850 ft 260 m790 ft 240 m770 ft 235 m720 ft 220 m660 ft 205 m640 ft 195 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
Grand Rapids Township sits at about 780 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
780 ft 240 m
most residents: 720–810 ft
Lowest
640 ft 195 m
on the northeast side
Highest
850 ft 260 m
on the southeast side
Average
770 ft 235 m
all land inside township boundaries
Grand Rapids Township spans about 210 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 | 780 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 850 ft260 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 640 ft195 m |
| Airport (GRR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.4 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 794 ft242 m |
| Average of all land | 770 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.3 mi west to east through the middle of Grand Rapids Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Charter township in Kent County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 19,372 2024 est.
- Land area
- 15.3 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,264 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.9883° N, 85.5919° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Grand River
- Airport
- Gerald R Ford International (GRR) 794 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 49301 49505 49506 49525 49546
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cannonsburg800 ft
- Grand Rapids Township780 ft
- East Grand Rapids760 ft
- Ada Township750 ft
- Cascade Township740 ft
- Forest Hills740 ft
- Alpine Township740 ft
- Plainfield Township730 ft
- Comstock Park730 ft
- Northview720 ft
- Grand Rapids710 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,039th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Kent County18th highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dias Hill1,041 ft
- Bettes Tower Hill870 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.