St. Joseph County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,040 ft 315 m970 ft 295 m930 ft 285 m860 ft 260 m790 ft 240 m750 ft 230 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
County area: Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

St. Joseph County averages about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 750 ft on the southwest side to 1,040 ft on the northwest side.

Average elevation

850 ft 260 m

all land inside the county

Highest

1,040 ft 315 m

on the northwest side

Lowest

750 ft 230 m

on the southwest side

St. Joseph County spans about 290 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.

Figure	Elevation
Average of all land	850 ft260 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side	1,040 ft315 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side	750 ft230 m

Elevation profile, west to east

24 mi west to east through Sturgis.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Michigan, United States
Population: 61,171 2024 est.
Land area: 500.6 sq mi + 20.4 sq mi water
Density: 122 per sq mi
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Great Lakes

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Branch County960 ft
LaGrange County, IN920 ft
Kalamazoo County880 ft
St. Joseph County850 ft
Cass County840 ft
Elkhart County, IN830 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Michigan39th highest of 83
Counties in the United States1,696th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Colon Mountain970 ft

All 24 towns in St. Joseph County by typical elevation

How we measure

Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.