Southfield Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
870 ft 265 m810 ft 250 m790 ft 240 m730 ft 225 m680 ft 210 m660 ft 200 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Southfield Township sits at about 730 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
730 ft 225 m
most residents: 710–780 ft
Lowest
660 ft 200 m
on the southwest side
Highest
870 ft 265 m
on the west side
Average
740 ft 225 m
all land inside township boundaries
Southfield Township spans about 210 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 | 730 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 870 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 660 ft200 m |
| Airport (VLL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.5 mi east of the township boundaries | 727 ft222 m |
| Average of all land | 740 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the middle of Southfield Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Oakland County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 14,810 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.0 sq mi
- Density
- 1,841 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.5240° N, 83.2548° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- River Rouge → Niagara River
- Airport
- Oakland/Troy (VLL) 727 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 48025
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bloomfield Township880 ft
- Bloomfield Hills850 ft
- Franklin770 ft
- Birmingham750 ft
- Southfield Township730 ft
- Beverly Hills730 ft
- Bingham Farms720 ft
- Lathrup Village700 ft
- Berkley680 ft
- Southfield680 ft
- Huntington Woods660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,243rd highest of 1,985
- Towns in Oakland County46th highest of 61
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Mountain, Oakland County1,130 ft
- Waterford Hill1,130 ft
- Mount Judah1,130 ft
- Haven Hill1,120 ft
- Teeple Hill1,100 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.