Marquette Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,660 ft 505 m1,390 ft 425 m1,260 ft 385 m1,000 ft 305 m730 ft 225 m600 ft 185 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
Marquette Township 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: 700–1,080 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,660 ft 505 m
on the northwest side
Average
960 ft 290 m
all land inside township boundaries
Marquette Township spans about 1,060 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 township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,660 ft505 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 600 ft185 m |
| Airport (SAW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi south of the township boundaries | 1,205 ft367 m |
| Average of all land | 960 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.5 mi south to north through the middle of Marquette Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Charter township in Marquette County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 4,209 2024 est.
- Land area
- 55.4 sq mi + 5.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 76 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.5600° N, 87.4483° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Saint Marys River → Niagara River
- Airport
- Marquette Sawyer Regional (SAW) 1,205 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 49855 49866
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ishpeming1,450 ft
- Negaunee1,390 ft
- Negaunee Township1,380 ft
- Palmer1,300 ft
- Richmond Township, Marquette County1,300 ft
- Sands Township940 ft
- Marquette Township790 ft
- Trowbridge Park780 ft
- Marquette690 ft
- Harvey670 ft
- Chocolay Township640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan964th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Marquette County25th highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Ragged Hills1,440 ft
- Hogback Mountain1,230 ft
- Mount Mesnard1,120 ft
- Sugarloaf Mountain, Marquette County1,070 ft
- Garlic Mountain920 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, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.