Hamilton, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
750 ft 230 m650 ft 200 m600 ft 185 m500 ft 155 m400 ft 125 m350 ft 110 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
Hamilton sits at about 530 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
530 ft 165 m
most residents: 420–660 ft
Lowest
350 ft 110 m
on the south side
Highest
750 ft 230 m
on the east side
Average
540 ft 165 m
all land inside city limits
Hamilton spans about 400 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 | 530 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 750 ft230 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 350 ft110 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hamilton | 490 ft150 m |
| Airport (HAB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 436 ft133 m |
| Average of all land | 540 ft165 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Marion County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 6,944 2024 est.
- Land area
- 38.1 sq mi
- Density
- 182 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.1423° N, 87.9886° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Buttahatchee River → Tombigbee River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Marion County-Rankin Fite (HAB) 436 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 35563 35570
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hackleburg890 ft
- Hodges810 ft
- Vina670 ft
- Brilliant610 ft
- Twin590 ft
- Hamilton530 ft
- Gu-Win530 ft
- Guin490 ft
- Detroit440 ft
- Beaverton440 ft
- Tremont, MS390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama280th highest of 595
- Towns in Marion County5th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Ikes Knob920 ft
- Bee Mountain, Marion County850 ft
- Pilot Hill810 ft
- Moore Hill720 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. All public domain.