Colbert County, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
980 ft 300 m820 ft 250 m730 ft 225 m570 ft 175 m410 ft 125 m330 ft 100 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
Colbert County averages about 610 ft (185 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 330 ft on the west side to 980 ft on the south side.
Average elevation
610 ft 185 m
all land inside the county
Highest
980 ft 300 m
on the south side
Lowest
330 ft 100 m
on the west side
Colbert County spans about 650 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 | 610 ft185 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the south side | 980 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 330 ft100 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
15 mi south to north through Muscle Shoals.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Alabama, United States
- Population
- 58,785 2024 est.
- Land area
- 593.0 sq mi + 30.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 99 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Interior Low Plateaus 58%, Coastal Plain 36%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Franklin County750 ft
- Lawrence County690 ft
- Lauderdale County650 ft
- Colbert County610 ft
- Tishomingo County, MS530 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Alabama25th highest of 67
- Counties in the United States2,200th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Wagnon Mountain900 ft
- Sand Mountain, Colbert County890 ft
- Hawk Pride Mountain890 ft
- Timber Knob Mountain880 ft
- Colbert Mountain870 ft
All 6 towns in Colbert County by typical elevation
- Littleville700 ft
- Leighton560 ft
- Cherokee540 ft
- Sheffield520 ft
- Muscle Shoals510 ft
- Tuscumbia490 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. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, 260 ft at 34.7188° N, 88.1165° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.