Melvin, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
850 ft 260 m840 ft 255 m830 ft 255 m820 ft 250 m800 ft 245 m800 ft 245 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Melvin sits at about 820 ft (250 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
820 ft 250 m
most residents: 810–820 ft
Lowest
800 ft 245 m
on the north side
Highest
850 ft 260 m
on the southwest side
Average
820 ft 250 m
all land inside village limits
Melvin spans about 50 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 | 820 ft250 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 850 ft260 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the north side | 800 ft245 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Melvin | 840 ft255 m |
| Average of all land | 820 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Sanilac County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 151 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 156 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.1864° N, 82.8616° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Black River → Niagara River
- ZIP codes 1
- 48454
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Melvin820 ft
- Brown City810 ft
- Speaker Township810 ft
- Brockway Township800 ft
- Maple Valley Township, Sanilac County800 ft
- Yale800 ft
- Lynn Township800 ft
- Flynn Township790 ft
- Peck780 ft
- Elk Township770 ft
- Fremont Township, Sanilac County750 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan852nd highest of 1,985
- Towns in Sanilac County4th highest of 40
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 village 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. All public domain.