Niles Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
850 ft 260 m790 ft 240 m770 ft 235 m710 ft 220 m660 ft 200 m640 ft 195 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Niles Township sits at about 740 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
740 ft 225 m
most residents: 700–770 ft
Lowest
640 ft 195 m
on the west side
Highest
850 ft 260 m
on the northwest side
Average
740 ft 225 m
all land inside township boundaries
Niles Township spans about 210 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 | 740 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 850 ft260 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 640 ft195 m |
| Airport (SBN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.3 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 798 ft243 m |
| Average of all land | 740 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.6 mi south to north through the middle of Niles Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Berrien County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 14,300 2024 est.
- Land area
- 37.3 sq mi + 1.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 383 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.8092° N, 86.2578° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- South Bend International (SBN) 798 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 49103 49107 49120
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Milton Township810 ft
- Bertrand Township780 ft
- German Township, IN770 ft
- Howard Township770 ft
- Clay Township, St. Joseph County, IN750 ft
- Niles Township740 ft
- Indian Village, IN730 ft
- Buchanan Township720 ft
- Roseland, IN720 ft
- Buchanan720 ft
- Niles710 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,212th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Berrien County4th highest of 46
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Tower Hill821 ft
- 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.