Hillsboro, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
620 ft 190 m610 ft 185 m610 ft 185 m600 ft 180 m590 ft 180 m590 ft 180 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Hillsboro sits at about 600 ft (185 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
600 ft 185 m
most residents: 590–600 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the northeast side
Highest
620 ft 190 m
on the southeast side
Average
600 ft 180 m
all land inside town limits
Hillsboro spans about 30 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 | 600 ft185 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 620 ft190 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 590 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hillsboro | 600 ft180 m |
| Airport (9A4) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.5 mi west of the town limits | 588 ft179 m |
| Average of all land | 600 ft180 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Lawrence County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 404 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.9 sq mi
- Density
- 215 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.6393° N, 87.1917° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Courtland (9A4) 588 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 35643
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Athens710 ft
- Hatton670 ft
- Trinity660 ft
- Rogersville650 ft
- Moulton650 ft
- Hillsboro600 ft
- Decatur590 ft
- Mooresville570 ft
- North Courtland570 ft
- Courtland570 ft
- Town Creek570 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama214th highest of 595
- Towns in Lawrence County3rd highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Chicken Foot Mountain870 ft
- Bald Knob, Lawrence County850 ft
- Bates Mountain850 ft
- Flat Rock, Lawrence County840 ft
- Union Hill Mountain840 ft
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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.