Leeds, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,230 ft 375 m1,000 ft 305 m890 ft 270 m660 ft 200 m430 ft 130 m320 ft 95 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
Leeds sits at about 670 ft (205 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
670 ft 205 m
most residents: 620–770 ft
Lowest
320 ft 95 m
near the middle
Highest
1,230 ft 375 m
on the southwest side
Average
680 ft 205 m
all land inside city limits
Leeds spans about 910 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 | 670 ft205 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 320 ft95 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Leeds | 620 ft190 m |
| Airport (BHM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.4 mi west of the city limits | 650 ft198 m |
| Average of all land | 680 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Jefferson, St. Clair and Shelby counties, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 12,573 2024 est.
- Land area
- 22.8 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 551 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.5482° N, 86.5444° 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 2
- 35094 35173
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Grayson Valley970 ft
- Shoal Creek840 ft
- Trussville830 ft
- Irondale820 ft
- Center Point820 ft
- Margaret770 ft
- Dunnavant720 ft
- Moody700 ft
- Leeds670 ft
- Vandiver550 ft
- Sterrett540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama166th highest of 595
- Towns in Jefferson County9th highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cheaha Mountain2,413 ft
- Dugger Mountain2,130 ft
- Morton Hill2,070 ft
- Karr Mountain1,240 ft
- Hurst Hill860 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 300 ft at 33.5371° N, 86.5479° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.