Cherokee, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
640 ft 195 m600 ft 180 m580 ft 175 m540 ft 165 m500 ft 155 m480 ft 150 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
Cherokee sits at about 540 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
540 ft 165 m
most residents: 510–590 ft
Lowest
480 ft 150 m
on the south side
Highest
640 ft 195 m
on the east side
Average
540 ft 165 m
all land inside town limits
Cherokee spans about 160 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 | 540 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 640 ft195 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 480 ft150 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cherokee | 540 ft165 m |
| Average of all land | 540 ft165 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Colbert County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 967 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.2 sq mi
- Density
- 436 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.7570° N, 87.9728° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 35616
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Underwood-Petersville630 ft
- Iuka, MS580 ft
- Florence580 ft
- Dennis, MS580 ft
- Cherokee540 ft
- Tishomingo, MS520 ft
- Sheffield520 ft
- Muscle Shoals510 ft
- Tuscumbia490 ft
- Waterloo470 ft
- Paden, MS450 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama271st highest of 595
- Towns in Colbert County3rd highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sand Mountain, Colbert County890 ft
- Wildcat Mountain850 ft
- Sutton Hill730 ft
- Bell Quarter Hill710 ft
- Potato Hill Mountain660 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.