Cherokee County, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,970 ft 600 m1,610 ft 490 m1,420 ft 435 m1,060 ft 325 m690 ft 210 m510 ft 155 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Cherokee County averages about 760 ft (230 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 510 ft on the southwest side to 1,974 ft on Flagpole Mountain.
Average elevation
760 ft 230 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,974 ft 602 m
on Flagpole Mountain
Lowest
510 ft 155 m
on the southwest side
Cherokee County spans about 1,460 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 760 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Flagpole Mountain (NGS survey height) | 1,974 ft602 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 510 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
26 mi south to north through Centre.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Alabama, United States
- Population
- 26,138 2024 est.
- Land area
- 553.6 sq mi + 46.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 47 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Valley and Ridge 76%, Appalachian Plateaus 24%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- DeKalb County1,220 ft
- Cleburne County1,060 ft
- Polk County, GA920 ft
- Chattooga County, GA880 ft
- Etowah County760 ft
- Cherokee County760 ft
- Calhoun County750 ft
- Floyd County, GA740 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Alabama10th highest of 67
- Counties in the United States1,904th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Flagpole Mountain, Cherokee County1,974 ft
- Weisner Mountain1,884 ft
- Bogan Peak1,650 ft
- Rock Quarry Mountain1,610 ft
- Vineyard Mountain1,460 ft
All 8 towns in Cherokee County by typical elevation
- Sand Rock930 ft
- Collinsville partly750 ft
- Broomtown750 ft
- Spring Garden720 ft
- Leesburg600 ft
- Centre600 ft
- Gaylesville590 ft
- Cedar Bluff580 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.