Watertown Township, Sanilac County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
800 ft 245 m780 ft 240 m780 ft 235 m760 ft 230 m750 ft 230 m740 ft 225 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
Watertown Township, Sanilac County sits at about 770 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
770 ft 235 m
most residents: 760–780 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the east side
Highest
800 ft 245 m
on the north side
Average
770 ft 235 m
all land inside township boundaries
Watertown Township, Sanilac County spans about 60 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 | 770 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 800 ft245 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 740 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Watertown Township, Sanilac County | 760 ft235 m |
| Airport (Y83) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.5 mi north of the township boundaries | 777 ft237 m |
| Average of all land | 770 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Sanilac County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 1,246 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.1 sq mi
- Density
- 36 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.3411° N, 82.8283° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Black River → Niagara River
- Airport
- Sandusky City (Y83) 777 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 48401 48419 48466 48471
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Speaker Township810 ft
- Flynn Township790 ft
- Elmer Township, Sanilac County780 ft
- Peck780 ft
- Elk Township770 ft
- Sandusky770 ft
- Custer Township, Sanilac County770 ft
- Watertown Township, Sanilac County770 ft
- Buel Township760 ft
- Washington Township, Sanilac County760 ft
- Applegate750 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,083rd highest of 1,985
- Towns in Sanilac County25th highest of 40
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).
- 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, 740 ft at 43.3501° N, 82.7626° 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. All public domain.