Watersmeet Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,870 ft 570 m1,780 ft 545 m1,740 ft 530 m1,650 ft 505 m1,560 ft 475 m1,520 ft 465 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
Watersmeet Township sits at about 1,660 ft (505 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,660 ft 505 m
most residents: 1,590–1,730 ft
Lowest
1,520 ft 465 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,870 ft 570 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,690 ft 515 m
all land inside township boundaries
Watersmeet Township spans about 350 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 | 1,660 ft505 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,870 ft570 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,520 ft465 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Watersmeet Township | 1,600 ft485 m |
| Airport (LNL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.5 mi south of the township boundaries | 1,706 ft520 m |
| Average of all land | 1,690 ft515 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Gogebic County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 1,470 2024 est.
- Land area
- 254.9 sq mi + 23.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 5.8 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.2677° N, 89.1779° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Middle Branch Ontonagon River
- Airport
- Kings Land O' Lakes (LNL) 1,706 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 49969
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Phelps, WI1,740 ft
- Land O'Lakes, WI1,710 ft
- Conover, WI1,680 ft
- Watersmeet Township1,660 ft
- Watersmeet1,600 ft
- Haight Township1,390 ft
- Interior Township1,220 ft
- McMillan Township, Ontonagon County1,150 ft
- Ewen1,140 ft
- Stannard Township1,140 ft
- Bruce Crossing1,130 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan4th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Gogebic Countyhighest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sheridan Hill1,850 ft
- Wolf Mountain1,810 ft
- Alligator Eye1,690 ft
- Big Rock1,500 ft
- Haystack Mountain1,440 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.