Carlton, AL Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
220 ft 65 m170 ft 50 m140 ft 45 m89 ft 27 m37 ft 11 m11 ft 4 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
Carlton sits at about 110 ft (35 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
110 ft 35 m
few residents
Lowest
11 ft 3 m
on the southeast side
Highest
220 ft 65 m
on the east side
Average
110 ft 35 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Carlton spans about 209 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 110 ft35 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 220 ft65 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 11 ft3 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Carlton | 170 ft55 m |
| Airport (4R3) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.9 mi north of the CDP boundary | 62 ft19 m |
| Average of all land | 110 ft35 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Clarke County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 46 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.5 sq mi
- Density
- 10 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 31.3432° N, 87.8456° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Jackson Municipal (4R3) 62 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 36545
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rockville230 ft
- Jackson230 ft
- Fairford140 ft
- St. Stephens140 ft
- Hobson130 ft
- Leroy120 ft
- Carlton110 ft
- Sims Chapel100 ft
- Calvert54 ft
- McIntosh48 ft
- Malcolm34 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama556th highest of 595
- Towns in Clarke Countylowest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Roundtop Hill410 ft
- High Hill250 ft
- Monger Hill200 ft
- Blocker Hill190 ft
- Beard Hill120 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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).
- 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, 11 ft at 31.3304° N, 87.8201° 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.
- Carlton 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. All public domain.