Sylvan Township, Osceola County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,130 ft 345 m1,100 ft 335 m1,080 ft 330 m1,050 ft 320 m1,010 ft 310 m990 ft 300 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
Sylvan Township, Osceola County sits at about 1,030 ft (315 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,030 ft 315 m
most residents: 1,000–1,060 ft
Lowest
990 ft 300 m
on the west side
Highest
1,130 ft 345 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,040 ft 315 m
all land inside township boundaries
Sylvan Township, Osceola County spans about 140 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 | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 990 ft300 m |
| Airport (9C8) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.9 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 1,020 ft311 m |
| Average of all land | 1,040 ft315 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Sylvan Township, Osceola County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Osceola County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 1,002 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.6 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 29 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.9371° N, 85.1651° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Muskegon River
- Airport
- Evart Municipal (9C8) 1,020 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 49631 49679
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hartwick Township1,250 ft
- Marion Township, Osceola County1,120 ft
- Evart Township1,090 ft
- Middle Branch Township1,090 ft
- Freeman Township1,080 ft
- Redding Township1,070 ft
- Orient Township1,060 ft
- Garfield Township, Clare County1,060 ft
- Osceola Township, Osceola County1,050 ft
- Sylvan Township, Osceola County1,030 ft
- Evart1,030 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan271st highest of 1,985
- Towns in Osceola County19th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blue Mountain1,250 ft
- McWatty Knoll1,110 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.