Grayson Valley, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,220 ft 370 m1,110 ft 340 m1,050 ft 320 m940 ft 285 m830 ft 250 m770 ft 235 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Grayson Valley sits at about 970 ft (295 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
970 ft 295 m
most residents: 910–1,040 ft
Lowest
770 ft 235 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,220 ft 370 m
on the east side
Average
950 ft 290 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Grayson Valley spans about 450 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 | 970 ft295 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 1,220 ft370 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 770 ft235 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Grayson Valley | 950 ft290 m |
| Airport (BHM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.1 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 650 ft198 m |
| Average of all land | 950 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 5,685 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.9 sq mi
- Density
- 3,042 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.6482° N, 86.6394° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Locust Fork → Black Warrior River → Tombigbee River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International (BHM) 650 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 35235
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Grayson Valley970 ft
- Clay930 ft
- Argo870 ft
- Trussville830 ft
- Irondale820 ft
- Center Point820 ft
- Pinson760 ft
- Moody700 ft
- Leeds670 ft
- Tarrant610 ft
- Fultondale590 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama49th highest of 595
- Towns in Jefferson Countyhighest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cheaha Mountain2,413 ft
- Dugger Mountain2,130 ft
- Morton Hill2,070 ft
- Keeler Mountain1,140 ft
- Little Sand Mountain980 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Grayson Valley is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.