Sugar Island Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
890 ft 270 m810 ft 250 m780 ft 235 m700 ft 210 m620 ft 190 m580 ft 175 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Sugar Island Township sits at about 620 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
620 ft 190 m
most residents: 590–790 ft
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the south side
Highest
890 ft 270 m
on the north side
Average
680 ft 205 m
all land inside township boundaries
Sugar Island Township spans about 310 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 | 620 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 890 ft270 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 580 ft175 m |
| Airport (ANJ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.1 mi west of the township boundaries | 716 ft218 m |
| Average of all land | 680 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.3 mi west to east through the middle of Sugar Island Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Chippewa County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 660 2024 est.
- Land area
- 49.3 sq mi + 27.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 13 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.4617° N, 84.2035° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- Airport
- Sault Ste Marie Municipal/Sanderson Field (ANJ) 716 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 49783
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kincheloe790 ft
- Kinross Township780 ft
- Pickford Township690 ft
- Soo Township680 ft
- Dafter Township670 ft
- Superior Township, Chippewa County650 ft
- Brimley650 ft
- Bruce Township, Chippewa County640 ft
- Bay Mills Township640 ft
- Sault Ste. Marie630 ft
- Sugar Island Township620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,793rd highest of 1,985
- Towns in Chippewa County18th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Velvet Hill680 ft
- Oneway Hill670 ft
- Moon Hill670 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.