Vandercook Lake, MI Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
1,010 ft 310 m990 ft 305 m980 ft 300 m960 ft 295 m940 ft 290 m930 ft 285 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Vandercook Lake sits at about 970 ft (295 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
970 ft 295 m
most residents: 950–980 ft
Lowest
930 ft 285 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,010 ft 310 m
on the northeast side
Average
960 ft 295 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Vandercook Lake spans about 80 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 | 970 ft295 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 930 ft285 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Vandercook Lake | 970 ft295 m |
| Airport (JXN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.5 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 1,001 ft305 m |
| Average of all land | 960 ft295 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Jackson County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 4,579 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.6 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 999 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.1934° N, 84.3911° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Grand River
- Airport
- Jackson County/Reynolds Field (JXN) 1,001 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 49201 49203
⤓ 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
- Liberty Township1,050 ft
- Columbia Township990 ft
- Sandstone Township980 ft
- Jackson980 ft
- Summit Township970 ft
- Blackman Township970 ft
- Vandercook Lake970 ft
- Napoleon Township970 ft
- Leoni Township970 ft
- Napoleon960 ft
- Michigan Center950 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan368th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Jackson County23rd highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bunday Hill1,220 ft
- Prospect Hill, Lenawee County1,220 ft
- Hatt Hill1,160 ft
- Irish Hill1,130 ft
- Sackrider Hill1,120 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Vandercook Lake is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.