Colony, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
790 ft 240 m660 ft 200 m600 ft 185 m480 ft 145 m360 ft 110 m290 ft 90 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
Colony sits at about 420 ft (125 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
420 ft 125 m
most residents: 350–490 ft
Lowest
290 ft 90 m
on the southwest side
Highest
790 ft 240 m
on the northwest side
Average
440 ft 135 m
all land inside town limits
Colony spans about 500 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 | 420 ft125 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 790 ft240 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 290 ft90 m |
| Average of all land | 440 ft135 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the middle of Colony.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Cullman County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 276 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.2 sq mi
- Density
- 123 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.9427° N, 86.8995° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Mulberry Fork → Black Warrior River → Tombigbee River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 35077
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Good Hope680 ft
- Smoke Rise670 ft
- Dodge City620 ft
- Hayden590 ft
- Hanceville560 ft
- County Line540 ft
- Garden City510 ft
- Trafford490 ft
- Warrior490 ft
- Kimberly470 ft
- Colony420 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama354th highest of 595
- Towns in Cullman Countylowest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hamilton Mountain1,000 ft
- Prospect Mountain860 ft
- Arkadelphia Mountain820 ft
- Little Mountain, Cullman County740 ft
- Burt Reid Mountain590 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.