Wakefield Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,810 ft 555 m1,510 ft 460 m1,360 ft 415 m1,060 ft 320 m750 ft 230 m600 ft 185 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Wakefield Township sits at about 1,570 ft (480 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,570 ft 480 m
most residents: 1,350–1,760 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the north side
Highest
1,810 ft 555 m
on Wolf Mountain
Average
1,300 ft 395 m
all land inside township boundaries
Wakefield Township spans about 1,210 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 | 1,570 ft480 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Wolf Mountain | 1,810 ft555 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 600 ft185 m |
| Airport (IWD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.8 mi west of the township boundaries | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Average of all land | 1,300 ft395 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
19 mi south to north through the middle of Wakefield Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Gogebic County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 305 2024 est.
- Land area
- 180.1 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.7 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.4972° N, 89.9143° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Saint Marys River → Niagara River
- Airport
- Gogebic/Iron County (IWD) 1,230 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 49947 49968
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wakefield Township1,570 ft
- Wakefield1,540 ft
- Erwin Township1,540 ft
- Marenisco1,520 ft
- Marenisco Township1,510 ft
- Bessemer Township1,510 ft
- Ironwood1,500 ft
- Hurley, WI1,490 ft
- Bessemer1,450 ft
- Ramsay1,450 ft
- Ironwood Township1,340 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan14th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Gogebic County3rd highest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Underwood Hill1,870 ft
- Wolf Mountain1,810 ft
- Porcupine Peak1,790 ft
- LaFayette Peak1,340 ft
- Green Mountain Peak1,240 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.