Union Township, Grand Traverse County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,100 ft 335 m1,030 ft 315 m990 ft 300 m920 ft 280 m850 ft 260 m810 ft 245 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, Grand Traverse County sits at about 950 ft (290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
950 ft 290 m
most residents: 860–1,040 ft
Lowest
810 ft 245 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,100 ft 335 m
on the southeast side
Average
940 ft 290 m
all land inside township boundaries
Union Township, Grand Traverse County spans about 290 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 | 950 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 810 ft245 m |
| Airport (TVC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.3 mi northwest of the township boundaries | 624 ft190 m |
| Average of all land | 940 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Union Township, Grand Traverse County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Grand Traverse County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 477 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.8 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 13 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.6332° N, 85.4199° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Boardman River
- Airport
- Cherry Capital (TVC) 624 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 49633 49649 49690 49696
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Springfield Township, Kalkaska County1,090 ft
- Boardman Township1,060 ft
- Fife Lake1,050 ft
- Fife Lake Township1,040 ft
- South Boardman1,010 ft
- Paradise Township1,000 ft
- Kingsley980 ft
- Union Township, Grand Traverse County950 ft
- East Bay Township870 ft
- Whitewater Township730 ft
- Acme Township690 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan421st highest of 1,985
- Towns in Grand Traverse County7th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Twentyone Hill1,230 ft
- Pierce Hill1,080 ft
- Hickory Hill1,050 ft
- McCrea Hill950 ft
- Carpenter Hill860 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.