Anniston, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,970 ft 600 m1,620 ft 495 m1,450 ft 440 m1,100 ft 335 m760 ft 230 m580 ft 180 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
Anniston sits at about 760 ft (230 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
760 ft 230 m
most residents: 690–950 ft
Lowest
580 ft 180 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,970 ft 600 m
on King Hill
Average
930 ft 285 m
all land inside city limits
Anniston spans about 1,390 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 | 760 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on King Hill | 1,970 ft600 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 580 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Anniston | 710 ft215 m |
| Airport (ANB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.6 mi south of the city limits | 612 ft187 m |
| Average of all land | 930 ft285 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 21,127 2024 est.
- Land area
- 45.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 461 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.6598° N, 85.8316° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Choccolocco Creek → Coosa River → Alabama River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Anniston Regional (ANB) 612 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 36201 36205 36206 36207
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Choccolocco800 ft
- West End-Cobb Town790 ft
- Anniston760 ft
- Saks750 ft
- Hobson City740 ft
- White Plains740 ft
- Weaver720 ft
- Jacksonville700 ft
- Oxford640 ft
- Munford630 ft
- Alexandria620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama114th highest of 595
- Towns in Calhoun County4th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cheaha Mountain2,413 ft
- Dugger Mountain2,130 ft
- Morton Hill2,070 ft
- Blue Mountain, Calhoun County1,480 ft
- Baltzell Hills1,380 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.