Matchwood Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,780 ft 540 m1,590 ft 485 m1,500 ft 460 m1,320 ft 400 m1,140 ft 345 m1,040 ft 320 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
Matchwood Township sits at about 1,250 ft (380 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,250 ft 380 m
most residents: 1,190–1,300 ft
Lowest
1,040 ft 320 m
on the north side
Highest
1,780 ft 540 m
on Trap Hills
Average
1,260 ft 385 m
all land inside township boundaries
Matchwood Township spans about 740 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 | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Trap Hills | 1,780 ft540 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,040 ft320 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Matchwood Township | 1,240 ft375 m |
| Average of all land | 1,260 ft385 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
12 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Ontonagon County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 82 2024 est.
- Land area
- 108.8 sq mi
- Density
- 0.8 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.5563° N, 89.3963° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- ZIP codes 3
- 49910 49925 49953
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Haight Township1,390 ft
- Bergland1,320 ft
- Lake Gogebic1,310 ft
- Bergland Township1,310 ft
- Matchwood Township1,250 ft
- Rockland Township1,180 ft
- McMillan Township, Ontonagon County1,150 ft
- Ewen1,140 ft
- Stannard Township1,140 ft
- Bruce Crossing1,130 ft
- Carp Lake Township, Ontonagon County880 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan85th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Ontonagon County5th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Trap Hills1,780 ft
- Alligator Eye1,690 ft
- C Shaft Hill1,434 ft
- North Military Hill1,210 ft
- South Military Hill960 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).
- 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, 1,040 ft at 46.6529° N, 89.3651° 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.
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.