Houghton Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,530 ft 465 m1,300 ft 395 m1,180 ft 360 m950 ft 290 m720 ft 220 m600 ft 185 m
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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
Houghton Township sits at about 640 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
640 ft 195 m
most residents: 610–1,230 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the shore of Lake Superior
Highest
1,530 ft 465 m
near the middle
Average
880 ft 270 m
all land inside township boundaries
Houghton Township spans about 930 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 | 640 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, near the middle | 1,530 ft465 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the shore of Lake Superior | 600 ft185 m |
| Average of all land | 880 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.4 mi south to north through the middle of Houghton Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Keweenaw County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 73 2024 est.
- Land area
- 120.7 sq mi + 396.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.6 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.4197° N, 88.2833° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Drains to
- Saint Marys River → Niagara River
- ZIP codes 1
- 49950
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Calumet Township1,210 ft
- Mohawk1,030 ft
- Fulton1,010 ft
- Allouez Township990 ft
- Copper City880 ft
- Ahmeek870 ft
- Eagle Harbor Township660 ft
- Houghton Township640 ft
- Eagle River630 ft
- Sherman Township, Keweenaw County630 ft
- Eagle Harbor620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,660th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Keweenaw County6th highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Siskiwit1,200 ft
- Mount Ojibway1,140 ft
- Mount Franklin, Keweenaw County1,080 ft
- Mount Saginaw920 ft
- Pine Mountain, Keweenaw County920 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 590 ft at 48.1235° N, 88.6568° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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 and Watershed Boundary Dataset; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.