West Traverse Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,140 ft 350 m1,000 ft 305 m930 ft 285 m790 ft 240 m650 ft 200 m580 ft 175 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
West Traverse Township sits at about 810 ft (245 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
810 ft 245 m
most residents: 710–990 ft
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the west side
Highest
1,140 ft 350 m
on the northwest side
Average
840 ft 255 m
all land inside township boundaries
West Traverse Township spans about 560 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 | 810 ft245 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,140 ft350 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 580 ft175 m |
| Airport (PLN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 721 ft220 m |
| Average of all land | 840 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.4 mi west to east through the middle of West Traverse Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Emmet County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 1,754 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.4 sq mi
- Density
- 131 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.4549° N, 85.0070° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Pellston Regional/Emmet County (PLN) 721 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 49740
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Friendship Township900 ft
- Pleasantview Township870 ft
- Bear Creek Township830 ft
- Resort Township810 ft
- West Traverse Township810 ft
- Little Traverse Township740 ft
- Petoskey720 ft
- Harbor Springs690 ft
- Bay Shore680 ft
- Conway610 ft
- Bay View600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan903rd highest of 1,985
- Towns in Emmet County7th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Emmet Heights1,320 ft
- Mount Pisage1,180 ft
- Island View Hill1,170 ft
- Gray Hill1,130 ft
- McCort Hill790 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.