DeKalb County, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,970 ft 600 m1,630 ft 500 m1,460 ft 445 m1,120 ft 345 m780 ft 240 m610 ft 185 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
DeKalb County averages about 1,220 ft (370 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 610 ft on the south side to 1,975 ft on Fox Mountain.
Average elevation
1,220 ft 370 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,975 ft 602 m
on Fox Mountain
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the south side
DeKalb County spans about 1,360 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 | 1,220 ft370 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Fox Mountain (NGS survey height) | 1,975 ft602 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 610 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
29 mi west to east through Fort Payne.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Alabama, United States
- Population
- 73,122 2024 est.
- Land area
- 777.1 sq mi + 1.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 94 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Dade County, GA1,290 ft
- DeKalb County1,220 ft
- Walker County, GA1,090 ft
- Jackson County1,070 ft
- Marshall County920 ft
- Chattooga County, GA880 ft
- Etowah County760 ft
- Cherokee County760 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Alabamahighest of 67
- Counties in the United States1,098th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Fox Mountain1,975 ft
- Little Mountain, DeKalb County1,840 ft
- Castle Rock1,750 ft
- Mount Brandon1,670 ft
- Wooten Hill1,580 ft
All 18 towns in DeKalb County by typical elevation
- Mentone1,700 ft
- Ider1,550 ft
- Henagar1,460 ft
- Sylvania1,350 ft
- Rainsville1,270 ft
- Fyffe1,250 ft
- Shiloh1,250 ft
- Powell1,250 ft
- Geraldine1,150 ft
- Lakeview1,150 ft
- Kilpatrick1,110 ft
- Crossville1,110 ft
- Valley Head1,070 ft
- Hammondville1,000 ft
- Pine Ridge990 ft
- Fort Payne970 ft
- Sand Rock partly930 ft
- Collinsville750 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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.