Dallas County, AL Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

570 ft 175 m450 ft 135 m390 ft 120 m260 ft 80 m140 ft 45 m79 ft 24 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Dallas County averages about 190 ft (60 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 79 ft on the south side to 570 ft on the northeast side.

Average elevation

190 ft 60 m

all land inside the county

Highest

570 ft 175 m

on the northeast side

Lowest

79 ft 24 m

on the south side

Dallas County spans about 491 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	190 ft60 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the northeast side	570 ft175 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side	79 ft24 m

Elevation profile, south to north

46 mi south to north through Selma.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Alabama, United States
Population: 35,545 2024 est.
Land area: 978.7 sq mi + 15.1 sq mi water
Density: 36 per sq mi
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Coastal Plain
Drains to: Gulf of America

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Chilton County530 ft
Autauga County360 ft
Perry County280 ft
Lowndes County260 ft
Dallas County190 ft
Wilcox County180 ft
Marengo County170 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Alabama60th highest of 67
Counties in the United States2,791st highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Wildcat Hill477 ft
Morgan Hill340 ft

All 4 towns in Dallas County by typical elevation

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.
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.