Roscommon County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,580 ft 480 m1,390 ft 425 m1,300 ft 395 m1,110 ft 340 m930 ft 285 m840 ft 255 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Roscommon County averages about 1,170 ft (360 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 840 ft on the southeast side to 1,580 ft on the east side.
Average elevation
1,170 ft 360 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,580 ft 480 m
on the east side
Lowest
840 ft 255 m
on the southeast side
Roscommon County spans about 740 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,170 ft360 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the east side | 1,580 ft480 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 840 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Denton Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Michigan, United States
- Population
- 23,932 2024 est.
- Land area
- 519.9 sq mi + 60.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 46 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Great Lakes
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Crawford County1,210 ft
- Missaukee County1,210 ft
- Roscommon County1,170 ft
- Clare County1,050 ft
- Ogemaw County1,020 ft
- Gladwin County780 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Michigan10th highest of 83
- Counties in the United States1,148th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Murray Hill1,380 ft
- Emery Hill1,365 ft
- Ninemile Hill1,340 ft
- Brants Hill1,340 ft
- Sinkhole Hill1,300 ft
All 15 towns in Roscommon County by typical elevation
- St. Helen1,190 ft
- Richfield Township, Roscommon County1,190 ft
- Gerrish Township1,180 ft
- Au Sable Township, Roscommon County1,180 ft
- Backus Township1,180 ft
- Lyon Township, Roscommon County1,170 ft
- Roscommon Township1,170 ft
- Houghton Lake1,170 ft
- Denton Township1,160 ft
- Markey Township1,150 ft
- Prudenville1,150 ft
- Higgins Township1,140 ft
- Lake Township, Roscommon County1,140 ft
- Roscommon1,140 ft
- Nester Township1,100 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.