Elevation of Southfield, Michigan, United States of America

Southfield, Michigan, United States of America is 211 m (692 ft) above sea level.

Southfield's height from sea level is 211 metres, or 692 feet. GeoNames reads 212 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 208 m.

Ground within 4 km

196 m – 226 m

Mean 209 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 30 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

14th of 29

among the towns of Michigan, and 342nd of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

6.6 km to the E, at 204 m, 7 m lower.

Cross-section through Southfield

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

277181WE25 km
West to east: from 218 m at 13 km west to 194 m at 13 km east.
277181NS25 km
North to south: from 270 m at 13 km north to 188 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Southfield, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 52 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 Southfield

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Royal Oak 6.6 kmE 204 m (669 ft) −7 m
Dearborn Heights 15.7 kmS 190 m (623 ft) −21 m
Troy 15.8 kmN 223 m (732 ft) +12 m
Livonia 15.9 kmSW 196 m (643 ft) −15 m
Warren 16 kmE 190 m (623 ft) −21 m

Where Southfield is

Latitude 42.4733688, longitude -83.2218731. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Southfield elevation: 211 m (692 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Southfield'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 212 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.