Leelanau Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,040 ft 320 m930 ft 280 m870 ft 265 m750 ft 230 m640 ft 195 m580 ft 175 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Leelanau Township sits at about 640 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
640 ft 195 m
most residents: 590–840 ft
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,040 ft 320 m
near the middle
Average
720 ft 220 m
all land inside township boundaries
Leelanau Township spans about 460 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 | 640 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, near the middle | 1,040 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 580 ft175 m |
| Average of all land | 720 ft220 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
11 mi west to east through the middle of Leelanau Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Leelanau County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 2,097 2024 est.
- Land area
- 49.2 sq mi + 178.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 43 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.1176° N, 85.6108° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- ZIP codes 3
- 49670 49674 49682
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Suttons Bay Township710 ft
- Omena670 ft
- Norwood Township660 ft
- Leelanau Township640 ft
- Leland Township630 ft
- Northport620 ft
- Torch Lake Township, Antrim County620 ft
- Lake Leelanau620 ft
- Eastport610 ft
- Suttons Bay610 ft
- Leland600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,635th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Leelanau County11th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sugarloaf Mountain, Leelanau County1,060 ft
- Prospect Hill, Leelanau County900 ft
- Old Baldy Hill, Leelanau County830 ft
- Bramen Hill790 ft
- Old Baldy730 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 and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.