Bristow Cove, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,410 ft 430 m1,260 ft 385 m1,180 ft 360 m1,030 ft 315 m880 ft 270 m800 ft 245 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bristow Cove sits at about 910 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
910 ft 280 m
most residents: 880–1,070 ft
Lowest
800 ft 245 m
on the west side
Highest
1,410 ft 430 m
on the north side
Average
930 ft 285 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Bristow Cove spans about 610 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 | 910 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 1,410 ft430 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 800 ft245 m |
| Airport (BFZ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.7 mi north of the CDP boundary | 1,032 ft315 m |
| Average of all land | 930 ft285 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.0 mi south to north through the middle of Bristow Cove.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Etowah County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 624 2020 Census
- Land area
- 10.8 sq mi
- Density
- 58 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.1048° N, 86.2275° 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
- Albertville Regional/Thomas J Brumlik Field (BFZ) 1,032 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 35956
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- New Union1,110 ft
- Sardis City1,060 ft
- Boaz1,050 ft
- Carlisle-Rockledge1,040 ft
- Egypt1,000 ft
- Altoona950 ft
- Douglas930 ft
- Bristow Cove910 ft
- Walnut Grove890 ft
- Gallant810 ft
- Ivalee700 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama62nd highest of 595
- Towns in Etowah County7th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cheaha Mountain2,413 ft
- Dugger Mountain2,130 ft
- Morton Hill2,070 ft
- Aurora Mountain1,402 ft
- Elrod Mountain1,090 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Bristow Cove is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.