Fayette County, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
800 ft 245 m660 ft 200 m600 ft 180 m460 ft 140 m330 ft 100 m270 ft 80 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
Fayette County averages about 480 ft (145 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 270 ft on the south side to 800 ft on Ford Mountain.
Average elevation
480 ft 145 m
all land inside the county
Highest
800 ft 245 m
on Ford Mountain
Lowest
270 ft 80 m
on the south side
Fayette County spans about 530 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 | 480 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Ford Mountain | 800 ft245 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 270 ft80 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
30 mi west to east through Fayette.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Alabama, United States
- Population
- 15,863 2024 est.
- Land area
- 627.7 sq mi + 1.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 25 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Coastal Plain 88%, Appalachian Plateaus 12%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Marion County640 ft
- Fayette County480 ft
- Walker County470 ft
- Lamar County390 ft
- Tuscaloosa County360 ft
- Pickens County270 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Alabama30th highest of 67
- Counties in the United States2,361st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Ford Mountain800 ft
- Tittle Mountain750 ft
- Scareum Mountain700 ft
- Goat Hill600 ft
- McCracken Mountain560 ft
All 5 towns in Fayette County by typical elevation
- Glen Allen540 ft
- Winfield partly530 ft
- Berry460 ft
- Fayette380 ft
- Belk360 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. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Highest ground: the single highest 3DEP cell, 800 ft at 33.8674° N, 87.5749° W, has no federal (GNIS) summit name within 980 ft (300 m), so the high point shown is the highest of the 25 highest cells with a GNIS summit within 1,640 ft (500 m).
- 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.