Torch Lake Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,030 ft 315 m920 ft 280 m870 ft 265 m760 ft 230 m650 ft 200 m600 ft 185 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
Torch Lake Township sits at about 660 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
660 ft 200 m
most residents: 610–750 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the south side
Highest
1,030 ft 315 m
on the northwest side
Average
690 ft 210 m
all land inside township boundaries
Torch Lake Township spans about 430 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 | 660 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 600 ft185 m |
| Airport (CMX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.0 mi northwest of the township boundaries | 1,095 ft334 m |
| Average of all land | 690 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
15 mi south to north through the middle of Torch Lake Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Houghton County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 1,934 2024 est.
- Land area
- 79.9 sq mi + 13.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 24 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.1483° N, 88.4214° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Drains to
- Saint Marys River → Niagara River
- Airport
- Houghton County Memorial (CMX) 1,095 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 49913 49930 49934 49945
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Calumet1,210 ft
- Calumet Township1,210 ft
- Laurium1,210 ft
- Franklin Township, Houghton County1,080 ft
- Houghton720 ft
- Torch Lake Township660 ft
- Hubbell650 ft
- Schoolcraft Township, Houghton County650 ft
- Lake Linden630 ft
- Osceola Township630 ft
- Dollar Bay620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,528th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Houghton County23rd highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Horace Greeley1,550 ft
- Tolonen Hill1,500 ft
- Arcadian Hill1,230 ft
- Pikes Peak, Baraga County1,160 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 and Watershed Boundary Dataset; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.