Otsego, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
820 ft 250 m780 ft 240 m770 ft 235 m730 ft 225 m700 ft 215 m680 ft 210 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Otsego sits at about 710 ft (220 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
710 ft 220 m
most residents: 710–730 ft
Lowest
680 ft 210 m
on the west side
Highest
820 ft 250 m
on the northeast side
Average
720 ft 220 m
all land inside city limits
Otsego spans about 140 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 | 710 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 820 ft250 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 680 ft210 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Otsego | 710 ft220 m |
| Airport (35D) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.9 mi northwest of the city limits | 706 ft215 m |
| Average of all land | 720 ft220 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Allegan County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 4,036 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.0 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,985 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.4606° N, 85.6964° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Kalamazoo River
- Airport
- Padgham Field (35D) 706 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 49078
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cooper Township860 ft
- Martin830 ft
- Martin Township810 ft
- Alamo Township790 ft
- Watson Township790 ft
- Gun Plain Township760 ft
- Trowbridge Township740 ft
- Otsego Township730 ft
- Plainwell730 ft
- Otsego710 ft
- Allegan690 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,325th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Allegan County13th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- The Hogback980 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.