Forkland, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
190 ft 60 m170 ft 50 m160 ft 50 m140 ft 40 m120 ft 35 m110 ft 30 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Forkland sits at about 140 ft (45 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
140 ft 45 m
most residents: 140–160 ft
Lowest
110 ft 30 m
on the southeast side
Highest
190 ft 60 m
on the north side
Average
140 ft 45 m
all land inside town limits
Forkland spans about 80 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 | 140 ft45 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 190 ft60 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 110 ft30 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Forkland | 150 ft45 m |
| Average of all land | 140 ft45 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Greene County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 419 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.5 sq mi
- Density
- 120 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.6482° N, 87.8833° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Tombigbee River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 36740
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Greensboro260 ft
- Newbern180 ft
- Eutaw170 ft
- Livingston160 ft
- Epes150 ft
- Demopolis140 ft
- Forkland140 ft
- Akron130 ft
- Gainesville130 ft
- Boligee120 ft
- Bellamy100 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama533rd highest of 595
- Towns in Greene County3rd highest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Burton Hill270 ft
- Bullocks Hill250 ft
- Hagan Hill250 ft
- McAlpin Hill250 ft
- Fannin Hill230 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.