Wexford County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,700 ft 515 m1,460 ft 445 m1,340 ft 410 m1,110 ft 335 m870 ft 265 m750 ft 230 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Wexford County averages about 1,170 ft (360 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 750 ft on the west side to 1,700 ft on Briar Hill.
Average elevation
1,170 ft 360 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,700 ft 515 m
on Briar Hill
Lowest
750 ft 230 m
on the west side
Wexford County spans about 950 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,170 ft360 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Briar Hill (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 1,700 ft515 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 750 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Cadillac.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Michigan, United States
- Population
- 34,460 2024 est.
- Land area
- 564.9 sq mi + 10.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 61 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Great Lakes
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Missaukee County1,210 ft
- Wexford County1,170 ft
- Osceola County1,170 ft
- Lake County960 ft
- Grand Traverse County900 ft
- Manistee County790 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Michigan9th highest of 83
- Counties in the United States1,146th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Briar Hill, Wexford County1,700 ft
All 25 towns in Wexford County by typical elevation
- Boon1,370 ft
- Boon Township1,370 ft
- Clam Lake Township1,360 ft
- Selma Township1,350 ft
- Henderson Township1,330 ft
- Haring Township1,320 ft
- Cadillac1,300 ft
- Haring1,290 ft
- Cherry Grove Township1,290 ft
- Wedgewood1,250 ft
- Cedar Creek Township, Wexford County1,240 ft
- Colfax Township, Wexford County1,200 ft
- Caberfae1,170 ft
- Harrietta1,140 ft
- Manton1,120 ft
- Liberty Township, Wexford County1,080 ft
- Wexford Township1,050 ft
- Antioch Township1,050 ft
- Buckley1,040 ft
- Slagle Township1,040 ft
- Hanover Township, Wexford County1,030 ft
- Greenwood Township, Wexford County1,020 ft
- South Branch Township, Wexford County980 ft
- Springville Township930 ft
- Mesick920 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.