Romulus, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
730 ft 220 m700 ft 215 m680 ft 210 m650 ft 200 m630 ft 190 m610 ft 185 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Romulus sits at about 650 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
650 ft 200 m
most residents: 620–670 ft
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the northeast side
Highest
730 ft 220 m
on the north side
Average
640 ft 195 m
all land inside city limits
Romulus spans about 120 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 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 730 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 610 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Romulus | 660 ft200 m |
| Airport (DTW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 645 ft197 m |
| Average of all land | 640 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Wayne County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 24,652 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.6 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 692 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.2223° N, 83.3966° 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 2
- 48174 48242
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Canton Township690 ft
- Van Buren Township680 ft
- Belleville670 ft
- Sumpter Township670 ft
- Westland660 ft
- Romulus650 ft
- Wayne650 ft
- Garden City640 ft
- Inkster630 ft
- Huron Township620 ft
- Taylor610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,575th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Wayne County10th highest of 42
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 600 ft at 42.2051° N, 83.3571° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.