Sanborn Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
870 ft 265 m800 ft 245 m760 ft 230 m690 ft 210 m620 ft 190 m580 ft 175 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
Sanborn Township sits at about 660 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
660 ft 200 m
most residents: 590–760 ft
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the east side
Highest
870 ft 265 m
on the southwest side
Average
680 ft 210 m
all land inside township boundaries
Sanborn Township spans about 290 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 | 660 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 870 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 580 ft175 m |
| Airport (APN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.2 mi northwest of the township boundaries | 690 ft210 m |
| Average of all land | 680 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
9.9 mi west to east through the middle of Sanborn Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Alpena County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 2,095 2024 est.
- Land area
- 43.8 sq mi + 5.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 48 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.9077° N, 83.4459° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- Airport
- Alpena County Regional (APN) 690 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 48762 49766
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lost Lake Woods820 ft
- Hawes Township790 ft
- Ossineke Township790 ft
- Alcona Township770 ft
- Caledonia Township, Alcona County740 ft
- Wilson Township730 ft
- Hubbard Lake720 ft
- Sanborn Township660 ft
- Alpena Township630 ft
- Ossineke610 ft
- Alpena590 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,561st highest of 1,985
- Towns in Alpena County7th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Kelly Hills1,150 ft
- Chin Whisker Hill1,090 ft
- Mount Maria1,080 ft
- Hickey Hill1,000 ft
- Manning Hill920 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.