Gordon, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
220 ft 65 m190 ft 55 m170 ft 50 m140 ft 40 m100 ft 30 m88 ft 27 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
Gordon sits at about 170 ft (50 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
170 ft 50 m
most residents: 150–180 ft
Lowest
88 ft 27 m
on the northeast side
Highest
220 ft 65 m
on the northeast side
Average
160 ft 45 m
all land inside town limits
Gordon spans about 132 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 | 170 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 220 ft65 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 88 ft27 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gordon | 160 ft50 m |
| Average of all land | 160 ft45 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Houston County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 301 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.9 sq mi
- Density
- 103 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 31.1413° N, 85.0966° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Chattahoochee River → Apalachicola River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 36343
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cowarts290 ft
- Webb280 ft
- Avon260 ft
- Ashford250 ft
- Columbia200 ft
- Gordon170 ft
- Cedar Springs, GA160 ft
- Cottonwood160 ft
- Malone, FL150 ft
- Donalsonville, GA150 ft
- Jakin, GA150 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama514th highest of 595
- Towns in Houston County11th highest of 12
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.