Houghton Lake, MI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,320 ft 400 m1,270 ft 390 m1,250 ft 380 m1,210 ft 365 m1,160 ft 355 m1,140 ft 345 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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.
Area: Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Houghton Lake sits at about 1,170 ft (355 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,170 ft 355 m

most residents: 1,150–1,220 ft

Lowest

1,140 ft 345 m

on the northwest side

Highest

1,320 ft 400 m

on the southeast side

Average

1,190 ft 360 m

all land inside the CDP boundary

Houghton Lake 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	1,170 ft355 m
Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side	1,320 ft400 m
Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side	1,140 ft345 m
Town center USGS map point for Houghton Lake	1,150 ft350 m
Airport (HTL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.2 mi northeast of the CDP boundary	1,150 ft351 m
Average of all land	1,190 ft360 m

Elevation profile, west to east

1.8 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Roscommon County, Michigan, United States
Population: 5,294 2020 Census
Land area: 10.8 sq mi + 1.6 sq mi water
Density: 492 per sq mi
Coordinates: 44.3147° N, 84.7647° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Muskegon River
Airport: Roscommon County/Blodgett Memorial (HTL) 1,150 ft
ZIP codes 3: 48629 48630 48651

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Backus Township1,180 ft
Lyon Township, Roscommon County1,170 ft
Roscommon Township1,170 ft
Houghton Lake1,170 ft
Holland Township, Missaukee County1,160 ft
Denton Township1,160 ft
Markey Township1,150 ft
Prudenville1,150 ft
Butterfield Township1,140 ft
Enterprise Township1,140 ft
Lake Township, Roscommon County1,140 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Michigan140th highest of 1,985
Towns in Roscommon County8th highest of 15

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Murray Hill1,380 ft
Emery Hill1,365 ft
Ninemile Hill1,340 ft
Sixmile Hill1,280 ft
Birch Hill1,260 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
Houghton Lake is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.