Kalamazoo, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
990 ft 300 m930 ft 285 m900 ft 275 m840 ft 255 m780 ft 240 m750 ft 230 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Kalamazoo sits at about 860 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
860 ft 260 m
most residents: 780–920 ft
Lowest
750 ft 230 m
on the northeast side
Highest
990 ft 300 m
on the west side
Average
850 ft 260 m
all land inside city limits
Kalamazoo 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 | 860 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 990 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 750 ft230 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Kalamazoo | 790 ft240 m |
| Airport (AZO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 874 ft266 m |
| Average of all land | 850 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 73,290 2024 est.
- Land area
- 24.6 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,975 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.2917° N, 85.5872° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Kalamazoo River
- Airport
- Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International (AZO) 874 ft
- ZIP codes 9
- 49001 49002 49004 49006 49007 49008 49009 49048 49074
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Oshtemo Township950 ft
- Westwood930 ft
- Texas Township920 ft
- Kalamazoo Township910 ft
- Comstock Northwest890 ft
- Portage880 ft
- Comstock Township860 ft
- Eastwood860 ft
- Kalamazoo860 ft
- Cooper Township860 ft
- Parchment840 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan738th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Kalamazoo County22nd highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- The Hogback980 ft
- Prospect Hill, Van Buren County890 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, 750 ft at 42.3088° N, 85.5735° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.