Elevation of Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States of America

Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States of America is 240 m (787 ft) above sea level.

Kalamazoo's height from sea level is 240 metres, or 787 feet. GeoNames reads 242 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 239 m.

Ground within 4 km

234 m – 296 m

Mean 260 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 62 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 29

among the towns of Michigan, and 281st of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

10.1 km to the S, at 268 m, 28 m higher.

Cross-section through Kalamazoo

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kalamazoo; the vertical scale is the same on both.

303223WE25 km
West to east: from 293 m at 13 km west to 275 m at 13 km east.
303223NS25 km
North to south: from 232 m at 13 km north to 271 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around Kalamazoo, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 53 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Kalamazoo

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Portage 10.1 kmS 268 m (879 ft) +28 m
Battle Creek 33.7 kmE 258 m (846 ft) +18 m

Where Kalamazoo is

Latitude 42.2917069, longitude -85.5872286. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Kalamazoo elevation: 240 m (787 ft) above sea level

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Kalamazoo's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 242 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.