Hamilton Township, Van Buren County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
880 ft 265 m840 ft 255 m820 ft 250 m780 ft 235 m730 ft 225 m710 ft 220 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
Hamilton Township, Van Buren County sits at about 770 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
770 ft 235 m
most residents: 750–790 ft
Lowest
710 ft 220 m
on the north side
Highest
880 ft 265 m
on the southeast side
Average
770 ft 235 m
all land inside township boundaries
Hamilton Township, Van Buren County spans about 170 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 | 770 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 880 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 710 ft220 m |
| Airport (C91) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.5 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 747 ft228 m |
| Average of all land | 770 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Hamilton Township, Van Buren County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Van Buren County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 1,364 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.2 sq mi + 1.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 40 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.1070° N, 86.0611° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Paw Paw River
- Airport
- Dowagiac Municipal (C91) 747 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 49045 49047
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Volinia Township900 ft
- Keeler Township790 ft
- Wayne Township790 ft
- Decatur780 ft
- Decatur Township780 ft
- Hamilton Township, Van Buren County770 ft
- Silver Creek Township770 ft
- Lawrence Township730 ft
- Lawrence690 ft
- Hartford Township670 ft
- Hartford660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,071st highest of 1,985
- Towns in Van Buren County11th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Hill, Cass County1,170 ft
- Mount Misery1,090 ft
- Prospect Hill, Van Buren County890 ft
- Thunder Mountain, Van Buren County810 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. All public domain.