Orion Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,170 ft 355 m1,100 ft 335 m1,070 ft 325 m1,000 ft 305 m930 ft 285 m890 ft 270 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
Orion Township sits at about 1,000 ft (305 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,000 ft 305 m
most residents: 980–1,040 ft
Lowest
890 ft 270 m
on the east side
Highest
1,170 ft 355 m
on the south side
Average
1,010 ft 305 m
all land inside township boundaries
Orion Township spans about 280 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 | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 890 ft270 m |
| Average of all land | 1,010 ft305 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.8 mi west to east through the middle of Orion Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Charter township in Oakland County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 39,119 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.2 sq mi + 2.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,180 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.7569° N, 83.2619° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Clinton River → Niagara River
- ZIP codes 4
- 48348 48359 48360 48362
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Oxford1,050 ft
- Oxford Township1,040 ft
- Independence Township1,010 ft
- Village of Clarkston1,000 ft
- Orion Township1,000 ft
- Addison Township990 ft
- Lake Orion990 ft
- Lake Angelus970 ft
- Waterford Township970 ft
- Oakland Township950 ft
- Auburn Hills940 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan315th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Oakland County9th highest of 61
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pine Knob1,280 ft
- Grampian Hills1,230 ft
- Bald Mountain, Oakland County1,130 ft
- Waterford Hill1,130 ft
- Mount Judah1,130 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 890 ft at 42.7510° N, 83.2165° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.