Pentwater, MI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

740 ft 225 m700 ft 210 m680 ft 205 m640 ft 195 m600 ft 180 m580 ft 175 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
Village area: Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Pentwater sits at about 610 ft (185 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

610 ft 185 m

most residents: 590–620 ft

Lowest

580 ft 175 m

on the west side

Highest

740 ft 225 m

on the southwest side

Average

610 ft 185 m

all land inside village limits

Pentwater spans about 160 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	610 ft185 m
Highest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side	740 ft225 m
Lowest point Inside village limits, on the west side	580 ft175 m
Town center USGS map point for Pentwater	600 ft185 m
Average of all land	610 ft185 m

Elevation profile, south to north

1.5 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Village in Oceana County, Michigan, United States
Population: 899 2024 est.
Land area: 1.3 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
Density: 672 per sq mi
Coordinates: 43.7817° N, 86.4331° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
ZIP codes 1: 49449

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Michigan1,844th highest of 1,985
Towns in Oceana Countylowest of 24

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 village 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 and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.