Ashland, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,200 ft 365 m1,140 ft 350 m1,120 ft 340 m1,060 ft 325 m1,000 ft 305 m980 ft 300 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ashland sits at about 1,080 ft (330 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,080 ft 330 m
most residents: 1,060–1,110 ft
Lowest
980 ft 300 m
on the east side
Highest
1,200 ft 365 m
at the foot of the Talladega Mountain
Average
1,080 ft 330 m
all land inside town limits
Ashland spans about 220 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 | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, at the foot of the Talladega Mountain | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 980 ft300 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ashland | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Airport (26A) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,065 ft325 m |
| Average of all land | 1,080 ft330 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Clay County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 1,945 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.3 sq mi
- Density
- 265 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.2737° N, 85.8361° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Tallapoosa River → Alabama River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Ashland/Lineville (26A) 1,065 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 36251
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ashland1,080 ft
- Lineville1,050 ft
- Goldville980 ft
- Delta970 ft
- Millerville890 ft
- New Site760 ft
- Waldo740 ft
- Daviston730 ft
- Wadley690 ft
- Hackneyville690 ft
- Munford630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama22nd highest of 595
- Towns in Clay Countyhighest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cheaha Mountain2,413 ft
- Dugger Mountain2,130 ft
- Morton Hill2,070 ft
- Lizard Scrape Mountain1,480 ft
- Poe Bridge Mountain1,430 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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.