Salem Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,210 ft 370 m1,120 ft 340 m1,070 ft 325 m970 ft 295 m880 ft 270 m830 ft 255 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
Salem Township sits at about 940 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
940 ft 285 m
most residents: 880–1,000 ft
Lowest
830 ft 255 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,210 ft 370 m
on the east side
Average
930 ft 280 m
all land inside township boundaries
Salem Township spans about 380 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 | 940 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 830 ft255 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Salem Township | 940 ft285 m |
| Airport (Y47) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.8 mi north of the township boundaries | 926 ft282 m |
| Average of all land | 930 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 6,909 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.3 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 201 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.4061° N, 83.5799° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- Airport
- Oakland Southwest (Y47) 926 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 48105 48167 48168 48170 48178
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lyon Township950 ft
- Novi940 ft
- Salem Township940 ft
- South Lyon930 ft
- Northfield Township910 ft
- Novi Township890 ft
- Northville870 ft
- Northville Township830 ft
- Plymouth Township750 ft
- Plymouth720 ft
- Canton Township690 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan449th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Washtenaw County6th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Haven Hill1,120 ft
- Teeple Hill1,100 ft
- Peach Mountain1,040 ft
- Prospect Hill, Washtenaw County981 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.