Elevation of Sterling Heights, Michigan, United States of America
Sterling Heights, Michigan, United States of America is 189 m (620 ft) above sea level.
Sterling Heights's height from sea level is 189 metres, or 620 feet. GeoNames reads 190 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 187 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 190 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 21 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of Michigan, and 396th of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through Sterling Heights
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Sterling Heights; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Sterling Heights
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warren | 9.7 km | S | 190 m (623 ft) | +1 m |
| Troy | 10.2 km | W | 223 m (732 ft) | +34 m |
| Roseville | 12 km | SE | 188 m (617 ft) | −1 m |
| Rochester Hills | 13.1 km | NW | 250 m (820 ft) | +61 m |
| Royal Oak | 13.8 km | SW | 204 m (669 ft) | +15 m |
Peaks and passes near Sterling Heights
- Bald Mountain, peak at 331 m (1,086 ft), 21.7 km to the NW — 142 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Sterling Heights is
Latitude 42.5803122, longitude -83.0302033. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.
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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 Sterling Heights'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 190 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.