Paradise Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,140 ft 350 m1,040 ft 315 m990 ft 300 m880 ft 270 m780 ft 240 m730 ft 225 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
Paradise 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: 920–1,080 ft
Lowest
730 ft 225 m
on the north side
Highest
1,140 ft 350 m
near the middle
Average
990 ft 300 m
all land inside township boundaries
Paradise Township spans about 410 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, near the middle | 1,140 ft350 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 730 ft225 m |
| Airport (TVC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.8 mi north of the township boundaries | 624 ft190 m |
| Average of all land | 990 ft300 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.0 mi south to north through the middle of Paradise Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Grand Traverse County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 5,069 2024 est.
- Land area
- 52.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 96 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.5768° N, 85.5250° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Cherry Capital (TVC) 624 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 49649 49696
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mayfield Township, Grand Traverse County1,060 ft
- Fife Lake1,050 ft
- Buckley1,040 ft
- Fife Lake Township1,040 ft
- Hanover Township, Wexford County1,030 ft
- Greenwood Township, Wexford County1,020 ft
- Paradise Township1,000 ft
- Kingsley980 ft
- Union Township, Grand Traverse County950 ft
- Blair Township880 ft
- East Bay Township870 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan313th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Grand Traverse County5th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Briar Hill, Wexford County1,310 ft
- Pierce Hill1,080 ft
- Hickory Hill1,050 ft
- McCrea Hill950 ft
- Carpenter Hill860 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 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.