Brookside, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
730 ft 225 m630 ft 195 m580 ft 180 m480 ft 150 m390 ft 115 m340 ft 100 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
Brookside sits at about 440 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
440 ft 135 m
most residents: 370–520 ft
Lowest
340 ft 100 m
on the west side
Highest
730 ft 225 m
on the east side
Average
490 ft 150 m
all land inside town limits
Brookside spans about 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 | 440 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 730 ft225 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 340 ft100 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Brookside | 370 ft110 m |
| Airport (BHM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.7 mi southeast of the town limits | 650 ft198 m |
| Average of all land | 490 ft150 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 1,357 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.6 sq mi
- Density
- 204 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.6379° N, 86.9167° 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
- 35036 35073 35117 35214
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Forestdale630 ft
- Gardendale620 ft
- Fultondale590 ft
- Adamsville590 ft
- Minor580 ft
- Mount Olive570 ft
- Edgewater560 ft
- Graysville560 ft
- Mulga550 ft
- Brookside440 ft
- Cardiff370 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama339th highest of 595
- Towns in Jefferson County40th highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cheaha Mountain2,413 ft
- Crocker Mountain740 ft
- Lassiter Mountain740 ft
- Crocker Hill710 ft
- Cat Mountain680 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.