Oscoda County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,480 ft 450 m1,310 ft 400 m1,230 ft 375 m1,060 ft 320 m890 ft 270 m800 ft 245 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Oscoda County averages about 1,130 ft (345 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 800 ft on the northeast side to 1,480 ft on the southeast side.

Average elevation

1,130 ft 345 m

all land inside the county

Highest

1,480 ft 450 m

on the southeast side

Lowest

800 ft 245 m

on the northeast side

Oscoda County spans about 680 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	1,130 ft345 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side	1,480 ft450 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side	800 ft245 m

Elevation profile, west to east

24 mi west to east through Big Creek Township.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Michigan, United States
Population: 8,596 2024 est.
Land area: 565.7 sq mi + 5.8 sq mi water
Density: 15 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

Crawford County1,210 ft
Oscoda County1,130 ft
Ogemaw County1,020 ft
Montmorency County960 ft
Alcona County830 ft
Alpena County730 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Michigan12th highest of 83
Counties in the United States1,196th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Mount Tom1,460 ft
Mio Mountain1,290 ft
Timberline Mountain1,280 ft

All 7 towns in Oscoda County by typical elevation

Greenwood Township, Oscoda County1,220 ft
Elmer Township1,150 ft
Comins Township1,140 ft
Clinton Township, Oscoda County1,050 ft
Big Creek Township1,040 ft
Mentor Township1,030 ft
Mio1,020 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.