Decatur, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
880 ft 270 m800 ft 245 m760 ft 230 m670 ft 205 m590 ft 180 m550 ft 170 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
Decatur sits at about 590 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
590 ft 180 m
most residents: 570–620 ft
Lowest
550 ft 170 m
on the south side
Highest
880 ft 270 m
on Burleson Mountain
Average
610 ft 185 m
all land inside city limits
Decatur spans about 330 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 | 590 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Burleson Mountain | 880 ft270 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 550 ft170 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Decatur | 570 ft175 m |
| Airport (HSV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.0 mi east of the city limits | 629 ft192 m |
| Average of all land | 610 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Morgan and Limestone counties, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 57,974 2024 est.
- Land area
- 54.6 sq mi + 6.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,062 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.6059° N, 86.9833° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Huntsville International-Carl T Jones Field (HSV) 629 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 35601 35603 35671 35673
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Athens710 ft
- Madison710 ft
- Hartselle680 ft
- Trinity660 ft
- Somerville640 ft
- Priceville610 ft
- Triana610 ft
- Hillsboro600 ft
- Falkville600 ft
- Decatur590 ft
- Mooresville570 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama226th highest of 595
- Towns in Morgan Countylowest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Burleson Mountain880 ft
- Chestnut Grove Mountain800 ft
- Bald Knob, Morgan County750 ft
- Bald Knob, Morgan County740 ft
- Cedar Mountain, Morgan County680 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. All public domain.