West Branch, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m1,010 ft 310 m1,000 ft 305 m960 ft 295 m930 ft 280 m910 ft 275 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
West Branch sits at about 950 ft (290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
950 ft 290 m
most residents: 930–970 ft
Lowest
910 ft 275 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the southwest side
Average
960 ft 290 m
all land inside city limits
West Branch 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 | 950 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 910 ft275 m |
| Town center USGS map point for West Branch | 960 ft290 m |
| Airport (Y31) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.6 mi southeast of the city limits | 882 ft269 m |
| Average of all land | 960 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Ogemaw County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 2,355 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Density
- 1,530 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.2764° N, 84.2386° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Rifle River → Niagara River
- Airport
- West Branch Community (Y31) 882 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 48661
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Foster Township1,270 ft
- St. Helen1,190 ft
- Richfield Township, Roscommon County1,190 ft
- Ogemaw Township1,130 ft
- Klacking Township1,110 ft
- West Branch950 ft
- West Branch Township940 ft
- Edwards Township900 ft
- Horton Township850 ft
- Churchill Township840 ft
- Mills Township800 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan402nd highest of 1,985
- Towns in Ogemaw County6th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Preachers Hill1,500 ft
- Pointers Hill1,300 ft
- Tolfee Hill1,130 ft
- Cook Hills (Historical)1,070 ft
- Kuhn Hill1,030 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).
- 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.