Porter Township, Midland County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
730 ft 220 m710 ft 215 m690 ft 210 m670 ft 205 m650 ft 195 m640 ft 195 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
Porter Township, Midland County sits at about 680 ft (205 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
680 ft 205 m
most residents: 650–690 ft
Lowest
640 ft 195 m
on the northeast side
Highest
730 ft 220 m
on the southeast side
Average
680 ft 205 m
all land inside township boundaries
Porter Township, Midland County spans about 90 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 | 680 ft205 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 730 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 640 ft195 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Porter Township, Midland County | 680 ft205 m |
| Average of all land | 680 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Midland County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 1,276 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.7 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 36 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.5186° N, 84.4664° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Tittabawassee River
- ZIP codes 4
- 48615 48637 48640 48662
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Coe Township760 ft
- Breckenridge730 ft
- Bethany Township730 ft
- Wheeler Township720 ft
- Jasper Township700 ft
- Greendale Township690 ft
- Porter Township, Midland County680 ft
- Jonesfield Township670 ft
- Mount Haley Township650 ft
- Lee Township650 ft
- Homer Township630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,474th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Midland County8th highest of 19
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); BTS time zones. All public domain.