Lawton, MI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

950 ft 290 m900 ft 275 m880 ft 270 m830 ft 255 m790 ft 240 m760 ft 230 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
Village area: Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Lawton sits at about 790 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

790 ft 240 m

most residents: 770–860 ft

Lowest

760 ft 230 m

on the west side

Highest

950 ft 290 m

on the southeast side

Average

810 ft 245 m

all land inside village limits

Lawton spans about 190 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	790 ft240 m
Highest point Inside village limits, on the southeast side	950 ft290 m
Lowest point Inside village limits, on the west side	760 ft230 m
Town center USGS map point for Lawton	790 ft240 m
Average of all land	810 ft245 m

Elevation profile, west to east

1.5 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Village in Van Buren County, Michigan, United States
Population: 1,876 2024 est.
Land area: 2.3 sq mi
Density: 819 per sq mi
Coordinates: 42.1673° N, 85.8470° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Paw Paw River
ZIP codes 1: 49065

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Michigan967th highest of 1,985
Towns in Van Buren County6th highest of 29

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Bald Hill, Cass County1,170 ft
Mount Misery1,090 ft
Prospect Hill, Van Buren County890 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 village limits (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); BTS time zones. All public domain.