Watson Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
940 ft 285 m870 ft 265 m840 ft 255 m780 ft 240 m720 ft 220 m690 ft 210 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
Watson Township sits at about 790 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
790 ft 240 m
most residents: 720–840 ft
Lowest
690 ft 210 m
on the southwest side
Highest
940 ft 285 m
on the northwest side
Average
770 ft 235 m
all land inside township boundaries
Watson Township 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 | 790 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 940 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 690 ft210 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Watson Township | 810 ft250 m |
| Airport (35D) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.2 mi west of the township boundaries | 706 ft215 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 Allegan County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 2,244 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.3 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 64 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.5370° N, 85.7017° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Kalamazoo River
- Airport
- Padgham Field (35D) 706 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 49010 49070 49078 49328
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Martin830 ft
- Martin Township810 ft
- Watson Township790 ft
- Gun Plain Township760 ft
- Trowbridge Township740 ft
- Otsego Township730 ft
- Plainwell730 ft
- Hopkins Township730 ft
- Otsego710 ft
- Allegan Township710 ft
- Hopkins710 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan995th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Allegan County5th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dias Hill1,041 ft
- The Hogback980 ft
- Beach Hill800 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).
- 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, 690 ft at 42.5085° N, 85.7529° 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.