Wawatam Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
720 ft 220 m690 ft 210 m670 ft 205 m630 ft 195 m600 ft 180 m580 ft 175 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
Wawatam Township sits at about 610 ft (185 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
610 ft 185 m
most residents: 600–650 ft
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the northwest side
Highest
720 ft 220 m
on the southeast side
Average
630 ft 195 m
all land inside township boundaries
Wawatam Township spans about 140 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 | 610 ft185 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 720 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 580 ft175 m |
| Airport (PLN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi south of the township boundaries | 721 ft220 m |
| Average of all land | 630 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Wawatam Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Emmet County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 701 2024 est.
- Land area
- 15.7 sq mi + 4.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 45 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.7745° N, 84.7624° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Pellston Regional/Emmet County (PLN) 721 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 49701 49718
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bliss Township820 ft
- Levering760 ft
- Mackinac Island730 ft
- Carp Lake Township730 ft
- Hebron Township730 ft
- Carp Lake730 ft
- St. Ignace640 ft
- Moran Township620 ft
- Wawatam Township610 ft
- Mackinaw City600 ft
- Mackinaw Township600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,828th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Emmet County25th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- McCort Hill790 ft
- Billiau Hill790 ft
- Castle Rock740 ft
- Rabbit Back Peak710 ft
- Mount Nebo700 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 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.