Manistee Lake, MI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,260 ft 385 m1,240 ft 375 m1,230 ft 375 m1,210 ft 370 m1,190 ft 360 m1,170 ft 360 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
Area: Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Manistee Lake sits at about 1,210 ft (370 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,210 ft 370 m

most residents: 1,200–1,230 ft

Lowest

1,170 ft 360 m

on the west side

Highest

1,260 ft 385 m

on the northwest side

Average

1,220 ft 370 m

all land inside the CDP boundary

Manistee Lake spans about 90 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	1,210 ft370 m
Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side	1,260 ft385 m
Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side	1,170 ft360 m
Average of all land	1,220 ft370 m

Elevation profile, south to north

2.4 mi south to north through the middle of Manistee Lake.

Topographic Map

Location: Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Kalkaska County, Michigan, United States
Population: 465 2020 Census
Land area: 3.6 sq mi + 1.4 sq mi water
Density: 130 per sq mi
Coordinates: 44.7820° N, 85.0098° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Manistee River
ZIP codes 1: 49646

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Blue Lake Township, Kalkaska County1,280 ft
Bear Lake1,240 ft
Coldsprings Township1,230 ft
Bear Lake Township, Kalkaska County1,210 ft
Manistee Lake1,210 ft
Excelsior Township1,200 ft
Oliver Township, Kalkaska County1,130 ft
Mancelona Township1,130 ft
Mancelona1,110 ft
Rapid River Township1,060 ft
Kalkaska Township1,040 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Michigan108th highest of 1,985
Towns in Kalkaska County5th highest of 17

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Toll Hill1,430 ft
Ester Hill1,350 ft
Smith Hill1,300 ft
Grube Hill1,270 ft
Mount Bundy1,180 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,160 ft at 44.8004° N, 85.0449° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
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.
Manistee Lake is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.