Iron River, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,700 ft 520 m1,640 ft 500 m1,610 ft 490 m1,550 ft 475 m1,490 ft 455 m1,460 ft 445 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Iron River sits at about 1,570 ft (480 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,570 ft 480 m
most residents: 1,500–1,630 ft
Lowest
1,460 ft 445 m
on the south side
Highest
1,700 ft 520 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,570 ft 480 m
all land inside city limits
Iron River spans about 240 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 | 1,570 ft480 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,700 ft520 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,460 ft445 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Iron River | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Average of all land | 1,570 ft480 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Iron County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 3,017 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.7 sq mi
- Density
- 448 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.0927° N, 88.6424° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Brule River → Menominee River
- ZIP codes 1
- 49935
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gaastra1,650 ft
- Alvin, WI1,640 ft
- Bates Township1,610 ft
- Stambaugh Township1,580 ft
- Iron River Township1,580 ft
- Iron River1,570 ft
- Tipler, WI1,570 ft
- Caspian1,490 ft
- Crystal Falls Township1,470 ft
- Alpha1,460 ft
- Amasa1,450 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan15th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Iron County5th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sheridan Hill1,850 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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, 1,460 ft at 46.0757° N, 88.6401° 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, 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.