Heflin, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,230 ft 375 m1,130 ft 345 m1,080 ft 330 m980 ft 300 m880 ft 270 m830 ft 250 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Heflin sits at about 960 ft (290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
960 ft 290 m
most residents: 900–1,010 ft
Lowest
830 ft 250 m
on the south side
Highest
1,230 ft 375 m
on the northwest side
Average
960 ft 290 m
all land inside city limits
Heflin 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 | 960 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 830 ft250 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Heflin | 960 ft290 m |
| Average of all land | 960 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Cleburne County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 3,557 2024 est.
- Land area
- 16.1 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 220 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.6490° N, 85.5875° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Tallapoosa River → Alabama River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 36264
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fruithurst1,090 ft
- Edwardsville980 ft
- Heflin960 ft
- Hollis Crossroads880 ft
- Choccolocco800 ft
- Anniston760 ft
- Saks750 ft
- Hobson City740 ft
- White Plains740 ft
- Weaver720 ft
- Oxford640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama51st highest of 595
- Towns in Cleburne County4th highest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cheaha Mountain2,413 ft
- Dugger Mountain2,130 ft
- Morton Hill2,070 ft
- Ross Mountain1,360 ft
- Flag Mountain, Cleburne County1,340 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.