Union Township, Branch County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
990 ft 300 m960 ft 295 m940 ft 290 m910 ft 280 m880 ft 270 m870 ft 265 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
Union Township, Branch County sits at about 910 ft (275 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
910 ft 275 m
most residents: 890–940 ft
Lowest
870 ft 265 m
on the northwest side
Highest
990 ft 300 m
on the south side
Average
930 ft 285 m
all land inside township boundaries
Union Township, Branch County spans about 120 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 | 910 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 990 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 870 ft265 m |
| Airport (OEB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.6 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 958 ft292 m |
| Average of all land | 930 ft285 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Union Township, Branch County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Branch County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 2,981 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.5 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 84 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.0505° N, 85.1337° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Saint Joseph River
- Airport
- Branch County Memorial (OEB) 958 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 49036 49094
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Girard Township950 ft
- Tekonsha Township940 ft
- Burlington920 ft
- Burlington Township920 ft
- Union Township, Branch County910 ft
- Union City900 ft
- Matteson Township890 ft
- Athens Township890 ft
- Athens890 ft
- Sherwood Township880 ft
- Sherwood880 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan542nd highest of 1,985
- Towns in Branch County17th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dixon Hill1,100 ft
- Stony Point Hill1,010 ft
- Colon Mountain970 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.