Wells Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
810 ft 245 m750 ft 230 m720 ft 220 m670 ft 205 m610 ft 185 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
Wells Township sits at about 700 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
700 ft 215 m
most residents: 630–720 ft
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
near the middle
Highest
810 ft 245 m
on the west side
Average
700 ft 215 m
all land inside township boundaries
Wells Township spans about 230 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 | 700 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 810 ft245 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, near the middle | 580 ft175 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wells Township | 630 ft190 m |
| Airport (ESC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.4 mi south of the township boundaries | 609 ft186 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
10.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Delta County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 4,835 2024 est.
- Land area
- 39.7 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 122 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.7772° N, 87.0796° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Delta County (ESC) 609 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 49807 49829 49837 49894
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cornell Township810 ft
- Bark River Township740 ft
- Escanaba Township720 ft
- Brampton Township710 ft
- Wells Township700 ft
- Ford River Township620 ft
- Escanaba610 ft
- Gladstone610 ft
- Masonville Township610 ft
- Bay de Noc Township600 ft
- Rapid River590 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,371st highest of 1,985
- Towns in Delta County8th highest of 19
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, 560 ft at 45.8021° N, 87.0938° 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 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.