Montcalm County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,120 ft 340 m1,010 ft 310 m960 ft 290 m850 ft 260 m740 ft 225 m690 ft 210 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Montcalm County averages about 880 ft (270 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 690 ft on the southeast side to 1,120 ft on the east side.
Average elevation
880 ft 270 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,120 ft 340 m
on the east side
Lowest
690 ft 210 m
on the southeast side
Montcalm County spans about 430 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 880 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the east side | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 690 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
24 mi south to north through Greenville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Michigan, United States
- Population
- 69,314 2024 est.
- Land area
- 705.3 sq mi + 15.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 98 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Great Lakes
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Mecosta County1,010 ft
- Montcalm County880 ft
- Newaygo County880 ft
- Isabella County860 ft
- Ionia County800 ft
- Kent County790 ft
- Gratiot County730 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Michigan31st highest of 83
- Counties in the United States1,635th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Brady Hills1,090 ft
All 31 towns in Montcalm County by typical elevation
- Edmore970 ft
- Home Township970 ft
- McBride960 ft
- Day Township960 ft
- Cato Township960 ft
- Lakeview950 ft
- Belvidere Township950 ft
- Pine Township930 ft
- Winfield Township920 ft
- Stanton910 ft
- Maple Valley Township910 ft
- Trufant910 ft
- Pierson Township910 ft
- Pierson910 ft
- Douglass Township910 ft
- Reynolds Township890 ft
- Richland Township, Montcalm County890 ft
- Howard City880 ft
- Sidney Township880 ft
- Montcalm Township860 ft
- Ferris Township850 ft
- Evergreen Township850 ft
- Sheridan850 ft
- Eureka Township850 ft
- Greenville840 ft
- Fairplain Township840 ft
- Bushnell Township810 ft
- Crystal810 ft
- Crystal Township790 ft
- Bloomer Township770 ft
- Carson City760 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.