Florence, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
690 ft 210 m620 ft 190 m580 ft 180 m510 ft 155 m450 ft 135 m410 ft 125 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
Florence sits at about 580 ft (175 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
580 ft 175 m
most residents: 530–610 ft
Lowest
410 ft 125 m
on the southwest side
Highest
690 ft 210 m
on the north side
Average
570 ft 175 m
all land inside city limits
Florence spans about 280 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 | 580 ft175 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 690 ft210 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 410 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Florence | 550 ft170 m |
| Airport (MSL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.2 mi southeast of the city limits | 551 ft168 m |
| Average of all land | 570 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Lauderdale County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 42,716 2024 est.
- Land area
- 27.1 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,577 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.7998° N, 87.6773° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Northwest Alabama Regional (MSL) 551 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 35630 35632 35633 35634
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Littleville700 ft
- St. Florian630 ft
- Underwood-Petersville630 ft
- Killen620 ft
- Iron City, TN610 ft
- Florence580 ft
- Leighton560 ft
- Cherokee540 ft
- Sheffield520 ft
- Muscle Shoals510 ft
- Tuscumbia490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama235th highest of 595
- Towns in Lauderdale County7th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Colbert Mountain870 ft
- Sandfall Mountain840 ft
- Sand Mountain, Colbert County780 ft
- Bald Knob, Colbert County740 ft
- River Hill (historical)570 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.