James Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

630 ft 190 m610 ft 185 m610 ft 185 m600 ft 180 m580 ft 180 m580 ft 175 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
Township area: Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).

Elevation Data

James Township sits at about 590 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

590 ft 180 m

most residents: 580–590 ft

Lowest

580 ft 175 m

on the south side

Highest

630 ft 190 m

on the northwest side

Average

590 ft 180 m

all land inside township boundaries

James Township spans about 50 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	590 ft180 m
Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side	630 ft190 m
Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side	580 ft175 m
Airport (MBS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.7 mi north of the township boundaries	668 ft204 m
Average of all land	590 ft180 m

Topographic Map

Location: Township in Saginaw County, Michigan, United States
Population: 1,750 2024 est.
Land area: 16.7 sq mi + 2.4 sq mi water
Density: 105 per sq mi
Coordinates: 43.3834° N, 84.0432° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
Airport: Mbs International (MBS) 668 ft
ZIP codes 1: 48609

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

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Michigan1,930th highest of 1,985
Towns in Saginaw County38th highest of 42

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 and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.