Sandstone Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,070 ft 325 m1,030 ft 315 m1,010 ft 310 m970 ft 295 m930 ft 285 m910 ft 275 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
Sandstone Township sits at about 980 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
980 ft 300 m
most residents: 950–1,010 ft
Lowest
910 ft 275 m
on the north side
Highest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the northwest side
Average
970 ft 295 m
all land inside township boundaries
Sandstone Township spans about 160 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 | 980 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 910 ft275 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sandstone Township | 970 ft295 m |
| Airport (JXN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.1 mi east of the township boundaries | 1,001 ft305 m |
| Average of all land | 970 ft295 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Jackson County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 3,895 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.0 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 108 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.2520° N, 84.5177° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Grand River
- Airport
- Jackson County/Reynolds Field (JXN) 1,001 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 49201 49269
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Concord1,020 ft
- Concord Township1,020 ft
- Parma1,000 ft
- Parma Township990 ft
- Spring Arbor Township990 ft
- Spring Arbor990 ft
- Sandstone Township980 ft
- Jackson980 ft
- Summit Township970 ft
- Blackman Township970 ft
- Vandercook Lake970 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan346th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Jackson County16th highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bunday Hill1,220 ft
- Hatt Hill1,160 ft
- Teaspoon Hill1,050 ft
- Jerusalem Hills1,010 ft
- Holibaugh Hills980 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.