Kalkaska Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,250 ft 380 m1,120 ft 340 m1,050 ft 320 m920 ft 280 m780 ft 240 m720 ft 220 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
Kalkaska Township sits at about 1,040 ft (315 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,040 ft 315 m
most residents: 1,010–1,090 ft
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the west side
Highest
1,250 ft 380 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,020 ft 310 m
all land inside township boundaries
Kalkaska Township spans about 530 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 | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 720 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Kalkaska Township | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Airport (Y89) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,029 ft314 m |
| Average of all land | 1,020 ft310 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
12 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Kalkaska County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 5,187 2024 est.
- Land area
- 70.4 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 74 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.7342° N, 85.1759° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Boardman River
- Airport
- Kalkaska City (Y89) 1,029 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 49646 49676 49680 49690
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Manistee Lake1,210 ft
- Excelsior Township1,200 ft
- Orange Township1,140 ft
- Oliver Township, Kalkaska County1,130 ft
- Rapid River Township1,060 ft
- Boardman Township1,060 ft
- Kalkaska Township1,040 ft
- Kalkaska1,030 ft
- South Boardman1,010 ft
- Clearwater Township650 ft
- Rapid City620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan269th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Kalkaska County13th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Beecher Hill1,350 ft
- Ester Hill1,350 ft
- Smith Hill1,300 ft
- Grube Hill1,270 ft
- Twentyone Hill1,230 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.