Hawes Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,110 ft 340 m1,010 ft 305 m960 ft 290 m860 ft 260 m760 ft 230 m710 ft 215 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Hawes Township sits at about 790 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

790 ft 240 m

most residents: 740–850 ft

Lowest

710 ft 215 m

on the northwest side

Highest

1,110 ft 340 m

on the west side

Average

820 ft 250 m

all land inside township boundaries

Hawes Township spans about 400 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	790 ft240 m
Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side	1,110 ft340 m
Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side	710 ft215 m
Average of all land	820 ft250 m

Elevation profile, west to east

12 mi west to east through the middle of Hawes Township.

Topographic Map

Location: Township in Alcona County, Michigan, United States
Population: 1,121 2024 est.
Land area: 70.0 sq mi + 1.5 sq mi water
Density: 16 per sq mi
Coordinates: 44.7176° N, 83.4651° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Lower South Branch Thunder Bay River
ZIP codes 3: 48705 48742 48762

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Michigan990th highest of 1,985
Towns in Alcona County7th highest of 15

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Kelly Hills1,150 ft
Chin Whisker Hill1,090 ft
Mount Maria1,080 ft
Hickey Hill1,000 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.