Schoolcraft County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,060 ft 325 m940 ft 285 m880 ft 270 m760 ft 230 m640 ft 195 m580 ft 175 m
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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
Schoolcraft County averages about 730 ft (225 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 580 ft on the shore of Lake Michigan to 1,070 ft on the northeast side.
Average elevation
730 ft 225 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the northeast side
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the shore of Lake Michigan
Schoolcraft County spans about 490 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 | 730 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the shore of Lake Michigan | 580 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
64 mi south to north through Manistique.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Michigan, United States
- Population
- 8,178 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,171.9 sq mi + 712.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 7.0 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
- Alger County860 ft
- Charlevoix County790 ft
- Luce County770 ft
- Leelanau County760 ft
- Schoolcraft County730 ft
- Delta County730 ft
- Mackinac County720 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Michigan62nd highest of 83
- Counties in the United States1,950th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Blue Mountains770 ft
All 9 towns in Schoolcraft County by typical elevation
- Seney Township740 ft
- Inwood Township740 ft
- Germfask Township690 ft
- Mueller Township680 ft
- Manistique Township670 ft
- Thompson Township640 ft
- Doyle Township640 ft
- Hiawatha Township630 ft
- Manistique600 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 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, 570 ft at 45.7918° N, 86.3749° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.