Jefferson Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,210 ft 370 m1,150 ft 350 m1,120 ft 340 m1,050 ft 320 m990 ft 305 m960 ft 295 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Jefferson Township sits at about 1,100 ft (335 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,100 ft 335 m
most residents: 1,050–1,130 ft
Lowest
960 ft 295 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,210 ft 370 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,090 ft 335 m
all land inside township boundaries
Jefferson Township spans about 250 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 | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 960 ft295 m |
| Airport (JYM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.6 mi northwest of the township boundaries | 1,184 ft361 m |
| Average of all land | 1,090 ft335 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Jefferson Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Hillsdale County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 3,028 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.5 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 85 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.8626° N, 84.5441° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- East Branch Saint Joseph River → Saint Joseph River → Maumee River
- Airport
- Hillsdale Municipal (JYM) 1,184 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 49242 49266 49271
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- North Adams1,190 ft
- Adams Township, Hillsdale County1,170 ft
- Hillsdale1,120 ft
- Hillsdale Township1,120 ft
- Cambria Township1,110 ft
- Jefferson Township1,100 ft
- Pittsford1,090 ft
- Cambria1,060 ft
- Pittsford Township1,030 ft
- Woodbridge Township1,020 ft
- Ransom Township990 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan201st highest of 1,985
- Towns in Hillsdale County9th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bunday Hill1,220 ft
- Prospect Hill, Lenawee County1,220 ft
- Irish Hill1,130 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. All public domain.