Grass Lake Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,120 ft 340 m1,070 ft 330 m1,050 ft 320 m1,010 ft 305 m960 ft 295 m940 ft 285 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
Grass Lake Township sits at about 1,000 ft (305 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,000 ft 305 m
most residents: 980–1,020 ft
Lowest
940 ft 285 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,120 ft 340 m
on Sackrider Hill
Average
1,000 ft 305 m
all land inside township boundaries
Grass Lake Township spans about 180 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 | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Sackrider Hill | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 940 ft285 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Grass Lake Township | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Average of all land | 1,000 ft305 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Charter township in Jackson County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 6,260 2024 est.
- Land area
- 46.5 sq mi + 1.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 135 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.2509° N, 84.2130° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Grand River
- ZIP codes 2
- 49201 49240
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Grass Lake1,010 ft
- Grass Lake Township1,000 ft
- Sharon Township980 ft
- Jackson980 ft
- Norvell Township970 ft
- Napoleon Township970 ft
- Leoni Township970 ft
- Napoleon960 ft
- Sylvan Township960 ft
- Michigan Center950 ft
- Waterloo Township940 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan307th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Jackson County8th highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sackrider Hill1,120 ft
- Prospect Hill Historical)1,100 ft
- Sugarloaf Hill1,090 ft
- Stofer Hill1,090 ft
- Riley Hill1,040 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.