Waterford Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,120 ft 340 m1,070 ft 325 m1,050 ft 320 m1,000 ft 305 m950 ft 290 m930 ft 280 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
Waterford Township 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: 940–980 ft
Lowest
930 ft 280 m
on the south side
Highest
1,120 ft 340 m
on the southwest side
Average
970 ft 295 m
all land inside township boundaries
Waterford Township spans about 190 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 township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 930 ft280 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Waterford Township | 970 ft295 m |
| Airport (PTK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 981 ft299 m |
| Average of all land | 970 ft295 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Charter township in Oakland County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 70,538 2024 est.
- Land area
- 30.6 sq mi + 4.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,302 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.7023° N, 83.4027° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Clinton River → Niagara River
- Airport
- Oakland County International (PTK) 981 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 48327 48328 48329
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Springfield Township1,050 ft
- Independence Township1,010 ft
- Village of Clarkston1,000 ft
- Orion Township1,000 ft
- Lake Angelus970 ft
- Waterford Township970 ft
- White Lake Township970 ft
- Pontiac960 ft
- Orchard Lake Village950 ft
- Sylvan Lake940 ft
- Keego Harbor940 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan374th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Oakland County17th highest of 61
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pine Knob1,280 ft
- Bald Mountain, Oakland County1,130 ft
- Waterford Hill1,130 ft
- Mount Judah1,130 ft
- Teeple Hill1,100 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.