Traverse City, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
900 ft 275 m820 ft 250 m780 ft 240 m700 ft 215 m620 ft 190 m580 ft 175 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Traverse City sits at about 610 ft (185 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
610 ft 185 m
most residents: 600–660 ft
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the northeast side
Highest
900 ft 275 m
on the west side
Average
620 ft 190 m
all land inside city limits
Traverse City spans about 320 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 | 610 ft185 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 900 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 580 ft175 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Traverse City | 600 ft180 m |
| Airport (TVC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 624 ft190 m |
| Average of all land | 620 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Grand Traverse and Leelanau counties, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 15,782 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.3 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,907 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.7631° N, 85.6206° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Cherry Capital (TVC) 624 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 49684 49686
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Long Lake Township890 ft
- Chums Corner890 ft
- Blair Township880 ft
- East Bay Township870 ft
- Elmwood Township750 ft
- Solon Township, Leelanau County740 ft
- Garfield Township740 ft
- Peninsula Township720 ft
- Acme Township690 ft
- Greilickville630 ft
- Traverse City610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,821st highest of 1,985
- Towns in Grand Traverse Countylowest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pierce Hill1,080 ft
- Hickory Hill1,050 ft
- Fouch Hill1,050 ft
- McCrea Hill950 ft
- Carpenter Hill860 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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 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.