Plymouth Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
900 ft 275 m840 ft 255 m810 ft 245 m750 ft 230 m690 ft 210 m660 ft 200 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Plymouth Township sits at about 750 ft (230 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
750 ft 230 m
most residents: 700–850 ft
Lowest
660 ft 200 m
on the east side
Highest
900 ft 275 m
on the west side
Average
780 ft 240 m
all land inside township boundaries
Plymouth Township spans about 240 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 | 750 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 900 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 660 ft200 m |
| Airport (DTW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 645 ft197 m |
| Average of all land | 780 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Plymouth Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Charter township in Wayne County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 27,191 2024 est.
- Land area
- 15.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,707 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.3680° N, 83.4883° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- Airport
- Detroit Metro Wayne County (DTW) 645 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 48170
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Novi940 ft
- Salem Township940 ft
- Novi Township890 ft
- Northville870 ft
- Northville Township830 ft
- Plymouth Township750 ft
- Plymouth720 ft
- Canton Township690 ft
- Livonia660 ft
- Westland660 ft
- Wayne650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,155th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Wayne County2nd highest of 42
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, 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.