Clay, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,350 ft 415 m1,190 ft 365 m1,110 ft 340 m960 ft 290 m800 ft 240 m720 ft 220 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
Clay sits at about 930 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
930 ft 285 m
most residents: 850–1,050 ft
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,350 ft 415 m
on the south side
Average
940 ft 290 m
all land inside city limits
Clay spans about 630 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 | 930 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,350 ft415 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 720 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Clay | 940 ft285 m |
| Airport (BHM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.9 mi southwest of the city limits | 650 ft198 m |
| Average of all land | 940 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Jefferson and St. Clair counties, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 10,241 2024 est.
- Land area
- 11.3 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 908 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.7026° N, 86.5997° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Cahaba River → Alabama River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International (BHM) 650 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 35126 35146 35173 35215
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Grayson Valley970 ft
- Clay930 ft
- Remlap920 ft
- Argo870 ft
- Trussville830 ft
- Center Point820 ft
- Springville820 ft
- Margaret770 ft
- Pinson760 ft
- Moody700 ft
- County Line540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama57th highest of 595
- Towns in Jefferson County2nd highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cheaha Mountain2,413 ft
- Dugger Mountain2,130 ft
- Morton Hill2,070 ft
- Black Oak Mountain1,330 ft
- Keeler Mountain1,140 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).
- 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.