Van Buren Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
870 ft 265 m810 ft 245 m770 ft 235 m710 ft 215 m650 ft 195 m610 ft 185 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
Van Buren Township sits at about 680 ft (205 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
680 ft 205 m
most residents: 670–700 ft
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the southeast side
Highest
870 ft 265 m
on the northeast side
Average
680 ft 210 m
all land inside township boundaries
Van Buren Township spans about 260 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 | 680 ft205 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 870 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 610 ft185 m |
| Airport (DTW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.6 mi east of the township boundaries | 645 ft197 m |
| Average of all land | 680 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.1 mi west to east through the middle of Van Buren Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Charter township in Wayne County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 29,813 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.0 sq mi + 2.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 877 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.2203° N, 83.4827° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Huron River → Niagara River
- Airport
- Detroit Metro Wayne County (DTW) 645 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 48111 48174 48184
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Superior Township770 ft
- Ypsilanti760 ft
- Ypsilanti Township730 ft
- Canton Township690 ft
- Augusta Township680 ft
- Van Buren Township680 ft
- Belleville670 ft
- Sumpter Township670 ft
- Westland660 ft
- Romulus650 ft
- Wayne650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,453rd highest of 1,985
- Towns in Wayne County5th highest of 42
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.