Paw Paw Lake, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
690 ft 210 m670 ft 205 m660 ft 200 m640 ft 195 m620 ft 190 m610 ft 185 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Paw Paw Lake sits at about 640 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
640 ft 195 m
most residents: 630–660 ft
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the southwest side
Highest
690 ft 210 m
on the northwest side
Average
640 ft 195 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Paw Paw Lake spans about 80 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 | 640 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 690 ft210 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 610 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Paw Paw Lake | 630 ft195 m |
| Average of all land | 640 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Berrien County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 3,323 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.1 sq mi + 1.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 648 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.2123° N, 86.2720° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Paw Paw River
- ZIP codes 2
- 49038 49098
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bainbridge Township750 ft
- Hartford Township670 ft
- Covert Township660 ft
- Hartford660 ft
- Lake Michigan Beach660 ft
- Watervliet Township660 ft
- Coloma650 ft
- Watervliet650 ft
- Hagar Township650 ft
- Coloma Township650 ft
- Paw Paw Lake640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,630th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Berrien County29th highest of 46
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Thunder Mountain, Van Buren County810 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Paw Paw Lake is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.