Adamsville, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
760 ft 230 m640 ft 195 m570 ft 175 m440 ft 135 m320 ft 95 m250 ft 80 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Adamsville sits at about 590 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
590 ft 180 m
most residents: 550–640 ft
Lowest
250 ft 80 m
on the northwest side
Highest
760 ft 230 m
on the southeast side
Average
530 ft 160 m
all land inside city limits
Adamsville spans about 510 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 | 590 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 760 ft230 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 250 ft80 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Adamsville | 580 ft175 m |
| Airport (BHM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.5 mi east of the city limits | 650 ft198 m |
| Average of all land | 530 ft160 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 4,181 2024 est.
- Land area
- 26.2 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 159 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.6009° N, 86.9561° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Locust Fork → Black Warrior River → Tombigbee River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International (BHM) 650 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 35005 35073 35214 35224
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Forestdale630 ft
- Sylvan Springs620 ft
- Maytown620 ft
- Adamsville590 ft
- McDonald Chapel590 ft
- Minor580 ft
- Edgewater560 ft
- Graysville560 ft
- Mulga550 ft
- Brookside440 ft
- Cardiff370 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama228th highest of 595
- Towns in Jefferson County21st highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Easterwood Mountain760 ft
- Lassiter Mountain740 ft
- Crocker Hill710 ft
- Cat Mountain680 ft
- Irish Hill650 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.