Manchester, MI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
1,010 ft 305 m970 ft 295 m950 ft 290 m910 ft 280 m880 ft 265 m860 ft 260 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Manchester sits at about 910 ft (275 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
910 ft 275 m
most residents: 890–950 ft
Lowest
860 ft 260 m
on the east side
Highest
1,010 ft 305 m
on the southwest side
Average
920 ft 280 m
all land inside city limits
Manchester spans about 150 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 | 910 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,010 ft305 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 860 ft260 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Manchester | 890 ft275 m |
| Average of all land | 920 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 2,056 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 961 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.1503° N, 84.0377° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- River Raisin
- ZIP codes 1
- 48158
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sharon Township980 ft
- Vineyard Lake980 ft
- Norvell Township970 ft
- Manchester Township970 ft
- Freedom Township960 ft
- Franklin Township950 ft
- Manchester910 ft
- Bridgewater Township880 ft
- Clinton Township, Lenawee County840 ft
- Clinton840 ft
- Tecumseh Township820 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan529th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Washtenaw County9th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Prospect Hill, Lenawee County1,220 ft
- Sackrider Hill1,120 ft
- Prospect Hill Historical)1,100 ft
- Sugarloaf Hill1,090 ft
- Prospect Hill, Washtenaw County981 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).
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.