Highland Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,190 ft 365 m1,130 ft 345 m1,100 ft 335 m1,030 ft 315 m970 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
Highland Township sits at about 1,030 ft (315 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,030 ft 315 m
most residents: 1,000–1,070 ft
Lowest
940 ft 285 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,190 ft 360 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,030 ft 315 m
all land inside township boundaries
Highland Township spans about 250 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 | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,190 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 940 ft285 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Highland Township | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Average of all land | 1,030 ft315 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Charter township in Oakland County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 20,337 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.1 sq mi + 2.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 597 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.6381° N, 83.6172° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Huron River → Niagara River
- ZIP codes 4
- 48356 48357 48380 48442
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Highland Township1,030 ft
- Hartland Township1,000 ft
- Rose Township990 ft
- Hartland990 ft
- Milford Township980 ft
- Milford970 ft
- White Lake Township970 ft
- Brighton Township960 ft
- Wixom940 ft
- Commerce Township940 ft
- Wolverine Lake930 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan278th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Oakland County5th highest of 61
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Holly1,240 ft
- Enders Hill1,200 ft
- Waterford Hill1,130 ft
- Haven Hill1,120 ft
- Teeple Hill1,100 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.