Cullman, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,010 ft 305 m910 ft 275 m860 ft 260 m760 ft 235 m670 ft 205 m620 ft 190 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
Cullman sits at about 790 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
790 ft 240 m
most residents: 730–880 ft
Lowest
620 ft 190 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,010 ft 305 m
on the north side
Average
790 ft 240 m
all land inside city limits
Cullman spans about 390 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 | 790 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,010 ft305 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 620 ft190 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cullman | 800 ft245 m |
| Airport (CMD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.5 mi north of the city limits | 970 ft296 m |
| Average of all land | 790 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Cullman County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 20,239 2024 est.
- Land area
- 23.0 sq mi + 1.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 882 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.1748° N, 86.8436° 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
- Airport
- Cullman Regional/Folsom Field (CMD) 970 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 35055 35057 35058 35077
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Eva1,060 ft
- South Vinemont960 ft
- Fairview940 ft
- West Point930 ft
- Berlin830 ft
- East Point790 ft
- Cullman790 ft
- Good Hope680 ft
- Dodge City620 ft
- Hanceville560 ft
- Garden City510 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama99th highest of 595
- Towns in Cullman County9th highest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hale Mountain, Morgan County1,000 ft
- Haynes Mountain948 ft
- Lacon Mountain920 ft
- Stout Mountain920 ft
- Buttermilk Mountain890 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.