South Branch Township, Wexford County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,530 ft 465 m1,340 ft 410 m1,240 ft 380 m1,050 ft 320 m860 ft 260 m760 ft 230 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
South Branch Township, Wexford County 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: 890–1,150 ft
Lowest
760 ft 230 m
on the west side
Highest
1,530 ft 465 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,020 ft 310 m
all land inside township boundaries
South Branch Township, Wexford County spans about 770 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 northeast side | 1,530 ft465 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 760 ft230 m |
| Average of all land | 1,020 ft310 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of South Branch Township, Wexford County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Wexford County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 352 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.0 sq mi
- Density
- 9.8 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.2056° N, 85.7573° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Manistee River
- ZIP codes 3
- 49601 49638 49689
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Boon1,370 ft
- Boon Township1,370 ft
- Henderson Township1,330 ft
- Dover Township, Lake County1,180 ft
- Caberfae1,170 ft
- Harrietta1,140 ft
- Slagle Township1,040 ft
- South Branch Township, Wexford County980 ft
- Eden Township, Lake County910 ft
- Norman Township780 ft
- Wellston770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan351st highest of 1,985
- Towns in Wexford County23rd highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Briar Hill, Wexford County1,700 ft
- Udell Hills1,050 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.