Wayland, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
850 ft 260 m820 ft 250 m800 ft 245 m770 ft 235 m740 ft 225 m730 ft 220 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Wayland 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: 750–810 ft
Lowest
730 ft 220 m
on the southwest side
Highest
850 ft 260 m
on the southeast side
Average
770 ft 235 m
all land inside city limits
Wayland spans about 120 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 city limits, on the southeast side | 850 ft260 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 730 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wayland | 770 ft235 m |
| Average of all land | 770 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Allegan County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 4,543 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.0 sq mi
- Density
- 1,534 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.6739° N, 85.6447° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Rabbit River
- ZIP codes 1
- 49348
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Martin830 ft
- Martin Township810 ft
- Leighton Township800 ft
- Wayland Township790 ft
- Thornapple Township790 ft
- Yankee Springs Township770 ft
- Wayland770 ft
- Hopkins Township730 ft
- Dorr Township710 ft
- Dorr710 ft
- Hopkins710 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,110th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Allegan County6th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dias Hill1,041 ft
- Beach Hill800 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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, 730 ft at 42.6615° N, 85.6590° 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.