Grand Traverse County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,210 ft 370 m1,050 ft 320 m970 ft 295 m820 ft 250 m660 ft 200 m580 ft 175 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Grand Traverse County averages about 900 ft (275 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 580 ft on the east side to 1,210 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
900 ft 275 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,210 ft 370 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the east side
Grand Traverse County spans about 630 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 | 900 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 580 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
18 mi south to north through Garfield Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Michigan, United States
- Population
- 96,625 2024 est.
- Land area
- 464.3 sq mi + 137.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 208 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland 99%
- Drains to
- Great Lakes
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Wexford County1,170 ft
- Kalkaska County1,110 ft
- Antrim County930 ft
- Grand Traverse County900 ft
- Benzie County790 ft
- Leelanau County760 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Michigan29th highest of 83
- Counties in the United States1,600th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Twin Mountains1,140 ft
- Pierce Hill1,080 ft
- Hickory Hill1,050 ft
- McCrea Hill950 ft
- Carpenter Hill860 ft
All 19 towns in Grand Traverse County by typical elevation
- Grant Township, Grand Traverse County1,070 ft
- Mayfield Township, Grand Traverse County1,060 ft
- Fife Lake1,050 ft
- Fife Lake Township1,040 ft
- Paradise Township1,000 ft
- Kingsley980 ft
- Union Township, Grand Traverse County950 ft
- Long Lake Township890 ft
- Chums Corner890 ft
- Blair Township880 ft
- Grawn880 ft
- East Bay Township870 ft
- Green Lake Township850 ft
- Interlochen840 ft
- Garfield Township740 ft
- Whitewater Township730 ft
- Peninsula Township720 ft
- Acme Township690 ft
- Traverse City610 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 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; 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.