Riley Township, Clinton County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
890 ft 270 m840 ft 255 m820 ft 250 m770 ft 235 m730 ft 220 m710 ft 215 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
Riley Township, Clinton County sits at about 780 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
780 ft 235 m
most residents: 740–820 ft
Lowest
710 ft 215 m
on the northwest side
Highest
890 ft 270 m
on the southeast side
Average
780 ft 235 m
all land inside township boundaries
Riley Township, Clinton County spans about 180 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 | 780 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 890 ft270 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 710 ft215 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Riley Township, Clinton County | 750 ft230 m |
| Airport (LAN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.4 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 861 ft262 m |
| Average of all land | 780 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Clinton County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 2,021 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.7 sq mi
- Density
- 57 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.9150° N, 84.6805° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Grand River
- Airport
- Capital Region International (LAN) 861 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 48820 48822 48835 48879
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- DeWitt830 ft
- Watertown Township830 ft
- Olive Township, Clinton County800 ft
- Wacousta800 ft
- Riley Township, Clinton County780 ft
- Westphalia Township760 ft
- Westphalia760 ft
- Bingham Township750 ft
- Fowler740 ft
- Dallas Township740 ft
- Bengal Township740 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,046th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Clinton County12th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bradshaw Hill770 ft
- The Island720 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, 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.