West Branch Township, Dickinson County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,480 ft 450 m1,380 ft 420 m1,330 ft 405 m1,230 ft 375 m1,140 ft 345 m1,090 ft 330 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
West Branch Township, Dickinson County sits at about 1,180 ft (360 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,180 ft 360 m
most residents: 1,130–1,210 ft
Lowest
1,090 ft 330 m
on the east side
Highest
1,480 ft 450 m
on the north side
Average
1,190 ft 365 m
all land inside township boundaries
West Branch Township, Dickinson County spans about 390 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 | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,480 ft450 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,090 ft330 m |
| Average of all land | 1,190 ft365 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
12 mi south to north through the middle of West Branch Township, Dickinson County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Dickinson County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 56 2024 est.
- Land area
- 108.2 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 0.5 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.0865° N, 87.7435° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Drains to
- Ford River
- ZIP codes 2
- 49831 49877
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sagola Township1,400 ft
- Mansfield Township1,390 ft
- Felch Township1,190 ft
- West Branch Township, Dickinson County1,180 ft
- Forsyth Township1,150 ft
- Breitung Township1,120 ft
- Gwinn1,110 ft
- Breen Township1,090 ft
- Wells Township, Marquette County1,040 ft
- Norway960 ft
- Norway Township950 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan126th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Dickinson County3rd highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Summit Mountain1,850 ft
- Green Hills1,690 ft
- Wewe Hills1,630 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, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.