New Buffalo Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
730 ft 220 m690 ft 210 m670 ft 205 m630 ft 195 m600 ft 180 m580 ft 175 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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
New Buffalo Township sits at about 620 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
620 ft 190 m
most residents: 610–660 ft
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the northeast side
Highest
730 ft 220 m
on the east side
Average
640 ft 195 m
all land inside township boundaries
New Buffalo Township spans about 150 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 | 620 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 730 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 580 ft175 m |
| Airport (MGC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.9 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 655 ft200 m |
| Average of all land | 640 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the middle of New Buffalo Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Berrien County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 2,517 2024 est.
- Land area
- 20.0 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 126 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.7828° N, 86.7526° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Michigan City Municipal-Phillips Field (MGC) 655 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 49117 49129
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Galena Township, IN750 ft
- Three Oaks Township670 ft
- Springfield Township, LaPorte County, IN670 ft
- Duneland Beach, IN630 ft
- New Buffalo630 ft
- New Buffalo Township620 ft
- Grand Beach620 ft
- Long Beach, IN620 ft
- Michiana620 ft
- Pottawattamie Park, IN620 ft
- Michiana Shores, IN610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,761st highest of 1,985
- Towns in Berrien County44th highest of 46
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Fuller821 ft
- Mount Edward810 ft
- Mount Randall810 ft
- Great Warren Dune790 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 and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.