Gardendale, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
800 ft 245 m700 ft 215 m650 ft 195 m540 ft 165 m440 ft 135 m380 ft 115 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
Gardendale sits at about 620 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
620 ft 190 m
most residents: 540–670 ft
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the northeast side
Highest
800 ft 245 m
on the east side
Average
600 ft 180 m
all land inside city limits
Gardendale spans about 420 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 | 620 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 800 ft245 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 380 ft115 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gardendale | 680 ft205 m |
| Airport (BHM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.0 mi southeast of the city limits | 650 ft198 m |
| Average of all land | 600 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 16,444 2024 est.
- Land area
- 23.1 sq mi
- Density
- 712 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.6601° N, 86.8128° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Locust Fork → Black Warrior River → Tombigbee River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International (BHM) 650 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 35071 35117
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Center Point820 ft
- Pinson760 ft
- Forestdale630 ft
- Gardendale620 ft
- Tarrant610 ft
- Fultondale590 ft
- Mount Olive570 ft
- Kimberly470 ft
- Brookside440 ft
- Morris430 ft
- Cardiff370 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama205th highest of 595
- Towns in Jefferson County16th highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cheaha Mountain2,413 ft
- Morton Hill2,070 ft
- Easterwood Mountain760 ft
- Lassiter Mountain740 ft
- Yellow Bird Mountain720 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, 380 ft at 33.6943° N, 86.7887° 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.