Killen, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
710 ft 215 m660 ft 200 m640 ft 195 m590 ft 180 m540 ft 165 m510 ft 155 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Killen sits at about 620 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
620 ft 190 m
most residents: 570–660 ft
Lowest
510 ft 155 m
on the southeast side
Highest
710 ft 215 m
on the east side
Average
620 ft 190 m
all land inside town limits
Killen spans about 200 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 | 620 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 710 ft215 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 510 ft155 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Killen | 610 ft185 m |
| Airport (MSL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.0 mi southwest of the town limits | 551 ft168 m |
| Average of all land | 620 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Lauderdale County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 1,040 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.0 sq mi
- Density
- 513 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.8629° N, 87.5375° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Northwest Alabama Regional (MSL) 551 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 35645
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- St. Joseph, TN790 ft
- Lexington760 ft
- St. Florian630 ft
- Underwood-Petersville630 ft
- Killen620 ft
- Iron City, TN610 ft
- Florence580 ft
- Leighton560 ft
- Sheffield520 ft
- Muscle Shoals510 ft
- Tuscumbia490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama201st highest of 595
- Towns in Lauderdale County6th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- LaGrange Mountain860 ft
- Bickley Point830 ft
- Bald Knob, Colbert County740 ft
- Round Mountain, Lawrence County680 ft
- River Hill (historical)570 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.