Sims Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
620 ft 190 m610 ft 185 m600 ft 185 m590 ft 180 m580 ft 180 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
Sims Township sits at about 590 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
590 ft 180 m
most residents: 580–610 ft
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the west side
Highest
620 ft 190 m
on the northwest side
Average
590 ft 180 m
all land inside township boundaries
Sims Township spans about 40 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 | 590 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 620 ft190 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 580 ft175 m |
| Average of all land | 590 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.9 mi south to north through the middle of Sims Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Arenac County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 986 2024 est.
- Land area
- 11.5 sq mi + 35.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 86 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.0591° N, 83.6281° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- ZIP codes 1
- 48703
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mason Township, Arenac County700 ft
- Sherman Township, Iosco County640 ft
- Twining640 ft
- Turner630 ft
- Turner Township620 ft
- Omer610 ft
- Whitney Township600 ft
- Alabaster Township590 ft
- Sims Township590 ft
- Au Gres590 ft
- Au Gres Township580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,954th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Arenac County16th highest of 18
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); BTS time zones. All public domain.