Ironwood Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,760 ft 535 m1,470 ft 450 m1,330 ft 405 m1,040 ft 315 m750 ft 225 m600 ft 185 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
Ironwood Township sits at about 1,340 ft (410 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,340 ft 410 m
most residents: 1,200–1,500 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,760 ft 535 m
near the middle
Average
1,130 ft 345 m
all land inside township boundaries
Ironwood Township spans about 1,160 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 | 1,340 ft410 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, near the middle | 1,760 ft535 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 600 ft185 m |
| Airport (IWD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Average of all land | 1,130 ft345 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
12 mi south to north through the middle of Ironwood Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Charter township in Gogebic County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 2,195 2024 est.
- Land area
- 175.1 sq mi
- Density
- 13 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.5086° N, 90.1612° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Saint Marys River → Niagara River
- Airport
- Gogebic/Iron County (IWD) 1,230 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 49911 49938
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pence, Iron County, WI1,630 ft
- Pence, WI1,630 ft
- Montreal, WI1,540 ft
- Erwin Township1,540 ft
- Bessemer Township1,510 ft
- Ironwood1,500 ft
- Hurley, WI1,490 ft
- Bessemer1,450 ft
- Ramsay1,450 ft
- Ironwood Township1,340 ft
- Kimball, WI1,340 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan52nd highest of 1,985
- Towns in Gogebic Countylowest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Zion1,722 ft
- Big Powderhorn Mountain1,630 ft
- Copper Peak1,550 ft
- Bald Mountain, Gogebic County1,321 ft
- Point Mountain1,240 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.