Wheeler Township, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
760 ft 235 m740 ft 225 m730 ft 225 m710 ft 215 m690 ft 210 m680 ft 205 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
Wheeler Township sits at about 720 ft (220 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
720 ft 220 m
most residents: 690–730 ft
Lowest
680 ft 205 m
on the east side
Highest
760 ft 235 m
on the southwest side
Average
710 ft 215 m
all land inside township boundaries
Wheeler Township spans about 80 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 | 720 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 760 ft235 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 680 ft205 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wheeler Township | 720 ft220 m |
| Average of all land | 710 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Gratiot County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 2,579 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.9 sq mi
- Density
- 72 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.4128° N, 84.4378° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- ZIP codes 3
- 48615 48637 48662
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Emerson Township740 ft
- St. Louis730 ft
- Breckenridge730 ft
- Bethany Township730 ft
- Wheeler Township720 ft
- Lafayette Township700 ft
- Jasper Township700 ft
- Porter Township, Midland County680 ft
- Merrill670 ft
- Jonesfield Township670 ft
- Lakefield Township, Saginaw County660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,288th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Gratiot County17th highest of 24
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, 680 ft at 43.4190° N, 84.3735° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.