Otsego County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,520 ft 465 m1,350 ft 415 m1,270 ft 385 m1,100 ft 335 m930 ft 285 m850 ft 260 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

Otsego County averages about 1,220 ft (370 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 850 ft on the north side to 1,520 ft on the southwest side.

Average elevation

1,220 ft 370 m

all land inside the county

Highest

1,520 ft 465 m

on the southwest side

Lowest

850 ft 260 m

on the north side

Otsego County spans about 670 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	1,220 ft370 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side	1,520 ft465 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side	850 ft260 m

Elevation profile, south to north

24 mi south to north through Bagley Township.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Michigan, United States
Population: 26,083 2024 est.
Land area: 515.0 sq mi + 11.2 sq mi water
Density: 51 per sq mi
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Great Lakes 96%

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Otsego County1,220 ft
Crawford County1,210 ft
Montmorency County960 ft
Antrim County930 ft
Charlevoix County790 ft
Cheboygan County760 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Michigan5th highest of 83
Counties in the United States1,095th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Watson Hills1,470 ft
Redner Hill1,420 ft
Rosecrans Hill1,360 ft

All 11 towns in Otsego County by typical elevation

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.