Luce County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,190 ft 360 m1,040 ft 315 m970 ft 295 m820 ft 250 m670 ft 205 m600 ft 185 m
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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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Luce County averages about 770 ft (235 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 600 ft on the east side to 1,190 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
770 ft 235 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,190 ft 360 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the east side
Luce County spans about 590 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 770 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 1,190 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 600 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
63 mi south to north through Pentland Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Michigan, United States
- Population
- 6,328 2024 est.
- Land area
- 899.1 sq mi + 1,013.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 7.0 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Great Lakes
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Alger County860 ft
- Luce County770 ft
- Schoolcraft County730 ft
- Chippewa County720 ft
- Mackinac County720 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Michigan54th highest of 83
- Counties in the United States1,870th highest of 3,151
All 5 towns in Luce County by typical elevation
- Pentland Township840 ft
- McMillan Township790 ft
- Newberry780 ft
- Columbus Township, Luce County780 ft
- Lakefield Township770 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.