Guntersville, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,150 ft 350 m1,010 ft 305 m940 ft 285 m790 ft 240 m650 ft 200 m580 ft 175 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
Guntersville sits at about 660 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
660 ft 200 m
most residents: 610–1,020 ft
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
near the middle
Highest
1,150 ft 350 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
750 ft 230 m
all land inside city limits
Guntersville spans about 570 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 | 660 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 580 ft175 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Guntersville | 640 ft195 m |
| Airport (8A1) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.4 mi northeast of the city limits | 615 ft187 m |
| Average of all land | 750 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Marshall County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 9,242 2024 est.
- Land area
- 25.6 sq mi + 17.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 360 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.3581° N, 86.2947° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Guntersville Municipal/Joe Starnes Field (8A1) 615 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 35951 35976
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Grant1,220 ft
- Kilpatrick1,110 ft
- New Union1,110 ft
- Arab1,070 ft
- Boaz1,050 ft
- Albertville1,040 ft
- Union Grove1,030 ft
- Joppa1,000 ft
- Douglas930 ft
- Guntersville660 ft
- New Hope590 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama171st highest of 595
- Towns in Marshall Countylowest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cheaha Mountain2,413 ft
- Dugger Mountain2,130 ft
- Morton Hill2,070 ft
- Ellenburg Mountain1,090 ft
- Baker Hill, Marshall County700 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.