Thompson Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
830 ft 250 m770 ft 235 m730 ft 225 m670 ft 205 m610 ft 185 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
Thompson Township sits at about 640 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
640 ft 195 m
most residents: 600–670 ft
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the shore of Lake Michigan
Highest
830 ft 250 m
on the northwest side
Average
670 ft 205 m
all land inside township boundaries
Thompson Township spans about 250 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 | 640 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 830 ft250 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the shore of Lake Michigan | 580 ft175 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Thompson Township | 600 ft185 m |
| Airport (ISQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.8 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 684 ft208 m |
| Average of all land | 670 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Schoolcraft County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 827 2024 est.
- Land area
- 112.4 sq mi + 6.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 7.4 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.9050° N, 86.3304° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Schoolcraft County (ISQ) 684 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 49854
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Inwood Township740 ft
- Mueller Township680 ft
- Manistique Township670 ft
- Fairbanks Township640 ft
- Thompson Township640 ft
- Doyle Township640 ft
- Hiawatha Township630 ft
- Garden Township620 ft
- Nahma Township610 ft
- Manistique600 ft
- Garden600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,624th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Schoolcraft County6th highest of 9
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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 570 ft at 45.7954° N, 86.3901° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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 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.