North Plains Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
830 ft 255 m780 ft 240 m760 ft 230 m710 ft 215 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
North Plains Township sits at about 750 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
750 ft 225 m
most residents: 690–800 ft
Lowest
640 ft 195 m
on the south side
Highest
830 ft 255 m
on the west side
Average
760 ft 230 m
all land inside township boundaries
North Plains Township spans about 190 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 | 750 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 830 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 640 ft195 m |
| Average of all land | 760 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of North Plains Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Ionia County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 1,196 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.8 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 33 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.0834° N, 84.8717° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Grand River
- ZIP codes 5
- 48834 48845 48846 48860 48873
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ronald Township810 ft
- Palo790 ft
- Bloomer Township770 ft
- Carson City760 ft
- North Shade Township750 ft
- North Plains Township750 ft
- Lebanon Township740 ft
- Pewamo730 ft
- Lyons Township720 ft
- Hubbardston720 ft
- Muir700 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,190th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Ionia County21st highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- The Island720 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, 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.