Calera, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
790 ft 240 m670 ft 205 m610 ft 185 m490 ft 150 m360 ft 110 m300 ft 95 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
Calera sits at about 560 ft (170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
560 ft 170 m
most residents: 500–630 ft
Lowest
300 ft 95 m
on the north side
Highest
790 ft 240 m
on the north side
Average
560 ft 170 m
all land inside city limits
Calera spans about 490 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 | 560 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 790 ft240 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 300 ft95 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Calera | 500 ft155 m |
| Airport (EET) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 586 ft179 m |
| Average of all land | 560 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Shelby and Chilton counties, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 18,530 2024 est.
- Land area
- 24.4 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 761 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.1029° N, 86.7536° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Coosa River → Alabama River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Shelby County (EET) 586 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 35040
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pea Ridge700 ft
- Jemison700 ft
- Thorsby680 ft
- Columbiana570 ft
- Calera560 ft
- Alabaster530 ft
- Pelham520 ft
- Shelby490 ft
- Brantleyville490 ft
- Montevallo460 ft
- Wilton430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama255th highest of 595
- Towns in Shelby County10th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cheaha Mountain2,413 ft
- Johnson Mountain1,170 ft
- Columbiana Mountain973 ft
- Potato Hill, Jefferson County790 ft
- Kelley Mountain724 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 240 ft at 33.1807° N, 86.7471° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.