Elba, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
420 ft 130 m360 ft 110 m320 ft 100 m260 ft 80 m200 ft 60 m160 ft 50 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Elba sits at about 230 ft (70 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
230 ft 70 m
most residents: 190–290 ft
Lowest
160 ft 50 m
on the south side
Highest
420 ft 130 m
on the west side
Average
240 ft 75 m
all land inside city limits
Elba spans about 260 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 | 230 ft70 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 420 ft130 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 160 ft50 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Elba | 190 ft60 m |
| Airport (14J) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 258 ft79 m |
| Average of all land | 240 ft75 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Coffee County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 3,531 2024 est.
- Land area
- 15.3 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 230 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 31.4146° N, 86.0677° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Pea River → Choctawhatchee River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Carl Folsom (14J) 258 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 36323
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- New Brockton430 ft
- Enterprise340 ft
- Onycha330 ft
- Opp300 ft
- Brantley300 ft
- Babbie290 ft
- Glenwood280 ft
- Kinston260 ft
- Horn Hill260 ft
- Dozier240 ft
- Elba230 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama471st highest of 595
- Towns in Coffee Countylowest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Coston Hill460 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 160 ft at 31.3949° N, 86.0693° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.