Sand Lake, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
820 ft 250 m790 ft 240 m780 ft 235 m750 ft 230 m720 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sand Lake sits at about 780 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
780 ft 240 m
most residents: 770–800 ft
Lowest
710 ft 215 m
on the south side
Highest
820 ft 250 m
on the north side
Average
780 ft 235 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Sand Lake spans about 110 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 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 820 ft250 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 710 ft215 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sand Lake | 790 ft240 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
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Iosco County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 1,418 2020 Census
- Land area
- 14.9 sq mi + 1.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 95 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.3192° N, 83.6847° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- ZIP codes 2
- 48748 48763
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Plainfield Township, Iosco County870 ft
- Reno Township800 ft
- Sand Lake780 ft
- Grant Township, Iosco County780 ft
- Whittemore770 ft
- Burleigh Township750 ft
- Wilber Township720 ft
- Sherman Township, Iosco County640 ft
- Tawas Township630 ft
- East Tawas590 ft
- Tawas City590 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,016th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Iosco County3rd highest of 17
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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, 710 ft at 44.2790° N, 83.6849° 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.
- Sand Lake is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.