Iron River Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,780 ft 545 m1,680 ft 515 m1,630 ft 500 m1,530 ft 465 m1,430 ft 435 m1,380 ft 420 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Iron River Township sits at about 1,580 ft (480 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,580 ft 480 m
most residents: 1,490–1,650 ft
Lowest
1,380 ft 420 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,780 ft 545 m
on the west side
Average
1,590 ft 485 m
all land inside township boundaries
Iron River 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 | 1,580 ft480 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,780 ft545 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,380 ft420 m |
| Average of all land | 1,590 ft485 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
12 mi west to east through the middle of Iron River Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Iron County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 1,042 2024 est.
- Land area
- 238.3 sq mi + 4.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 4.4 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.1379° N, 88.7160° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Brule River → Menominee River
- ZIP codes 2
- 49935 49967
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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
- Hematite Township1,500 ft
- Caspian1,490 ft
- Crystal Falls Township1,470 ft
- Amasa1,450 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan13th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Iron County4th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sheridan Hill1,850 ft
- Big Rock1,500 ft
- Haystack Mountain1,440 ft
- Mount Kallio1,380 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.