Polkton Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
750 ft 230 m710 ft 215 m690 ft 210 m650 ft 195 m600 ft 185 m580 ft 175 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
Polkton Township sits at about 650 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
650 ft 195 m
most residents: 610–670 ft
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the southwest side
Highest
750 ft 230 m
near the middle
Average
650 ft 200 m
all land inside township boundaries
Polkton Township spans about 170 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 | 650 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, near the middle | 750 ft230 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 580 ft175 m |
| Average of all land | 650 ft200 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.2 mi south to north through the middle of Polkton Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Charter township in Ottawa County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 2,591 2024 est.
- Land area
- 39.3 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 66 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.0522° N, 85.9672° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- ZIP codes 2
- 49404 49448
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wright Township710 ft
- Tallmadge Township690 ft
- Ravenna Township680 ft
- Allendale660 ft
- Allendale Township660 ft
- Coopersville650 ft
- Polkton Township650 ft
- Nunica630 ft
- Crockery Township630 ft
- Lamont630 ft
- Robinson Township610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,610th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Ottawa County13th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bettes Tower Hill870 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.