Spencer Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,010 ft 310 m960 ft 295 m940 ft 285 m890 ft 270 m850 ft 260 m820 ft 250 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
Spencer Township sits at about 860 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
860 ft 265 m
most residents: 840–900 ft
Lowest
820 ft 250 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,010 ft 310 m
on the southwest side
Average
870 ft 265 m
all land inside township boundaries
Spencer Township spans about 190 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 | 860 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 820 ft250 m |
| Airport (6D6) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.3 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 855 ft261 m |
| Average of all land | 870 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the middle of Spencer Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Kent County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 4,254 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.6 sq mi + 2.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 123 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.2516° N, 85.3569° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Flat River → Grand River
- Airport
- Greenville Municipal (6D6) 855 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 49319 49326 49343 49347
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pine Township930 ft
- Maple Valley Township910 ft
- Trufant910 ft
- Pierson Township910 ft
- Pierson910 ft
- Nelson Township910 ft
- Oakfield Township870 ft
- Spencer Township860 ft
- Montcalm Township860 ft
- Eureka Township850 ft
- Greenville840 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan712th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Kent County6th highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brady Hills1,090 ft
- Cheney Hills1,020 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.