South Lyon, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
980 ft 300 m960 ft 290 m950 ft 290 m920 ft 280 m900 ft 275 m890 ft 270 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
South Lyon sits at about 930 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
930 ft 285 m
most residents: 910–960 ft
Lowest
890 ft 270 m
on the southwest side
Highest
980 ft 300 m
on the northeast side
Average
930 ft 285 m
all land inside city limits
South Lyon spans about 90 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 | 930 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 980 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 890 ft270 m |
| Town center USGS map point for South Lyon | 930 ft280 m |
| Airport (Y47) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.7 mi northeast of the city limits | 926 ft282 m |
| Average of all land | 930 ft285 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Oakland County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 12,219 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.7 sq mi
- Density
- 3,265 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.4606° N, 83.6516° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Huron River → Niagara River
- Airport
- Oakland Southwest (Y47) 926 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 48178
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Brighton Township960 ft
- Lyon Township950 ft
- Wixom940 ft
- Salem Township940 ft
- Brighton940 ft
- South Lyon930 ft
- Northfield Township910 ft
- Whitmore Lake910 ft
- Green Oak Township900 ft
- Novi Township890 ft
- Hamburg Township890 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan481st highest of 1,985
- Towns in Oakland County33rd highest of 61
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Haven Hill1,120 ft
- Teeple Hill1,100 ft
- Peach Mountain1,040 ft
- Prospect Hill, Washtenaw County981 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.