Irondale, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,080 ft 330 m930 ft 280 m850 ft 260 m690 ft 210 m540 ft 165 m460 ft 140 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
Irondale sits at about 820 ft (250 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
820 ft 250 m
most residents: 690–990 ft
Lowest
460 ft 140 m
on the south side
Highest
1,080 ft 330 m
on the east side
Average
760 ft 230 m
all land inside city limits
Irondale spans about 620 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 | 820 ft250 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 460 ft140 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Irondale | 740 ft225 m |
| Airport (BHM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.6 mi northwest of the city limits | 650 ft198 m |
| Average of all land | 760 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 13,545 2024 est.
- Land area
- 17.3 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 782 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.5382° N, 86.7072° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Cahaba River → Alabama River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International (BHM) 650 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 35094 35173 35210 35235
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Grayson Valley970 ft
- Trussville830 ft
- Irondale820 ft
- Center Point820 ft
- Mountain Brook750 ft
- Homewood710 ft
- Vestavia Hills660 ft
- Birmingham650 ft
- Tarrant610 ft
- Fultondale590 ft
- Brook Highland580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama83rd highest of 595
- Towns in Jefferson County4th highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cheaha Mountain2,413 ft
- Dugger Mountain2,130 ft
- Morton Hill2,070 ft
- Pilot Knob, Jefferson County1,250 ft
- Ruffner Mountain1,240 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.