Walker, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
840 ft 255 m780 ft 235 m740 ft 225 m680 ft 210 m620 ft 190 m590 ft 180 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Walker sits at about 740 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
740 ft 225 m
most residents: 680–760 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the south side
Highest
840 ft 255 m
on the northeast side
Average
710 ft 215 m
all land inside city limits
Walker spans about 250 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 | 740 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 840 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 590 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Walker | 750 ft225 m |
| Airport (GRR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi southeast of the city limits | 794 ft242 m |
| Average of all land | 710 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Kent County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 25,921 2024 est.
- Land area
- 24.6 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,055 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.0014° N, 85.7681° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Grand River
- Airport
- Gerald R Ford International (GRR) 794 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 49504 49534 49544
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Walker740 ft
- Alpine Township740 ft
- Comstock Park730 ft
- Grand Rapids710 ft
- Wright Township710 ft
- Tallmadge Township690 ft
- Wyoming680 ft
- Jenison650 ft
- Georgetown Township650 ft
- Lamont630 ft
- Grandville620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,218th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Kent County29th highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dias Hill1,041 ft
- Bettes Tower Hill870 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 590 ft at 42.9174° N, 85.7690° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.