Limestone County, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
940 ft 285 m840 ft 255 m790 ft 240 m700 ft 215 m600 ft 185 m550 ft 170 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Limestone County averages about 700 ft (215 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 550 ft on the southeast side to 940 ft on the northeast side.
Average elevation
700 ft 215 m
all land inside the county
Highest
940 ft 285 m
on the northeast side
Lowest
550 ft 170 m
on the southeast side
Limestone County spans about 390 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 700 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 940 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 550 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
26 mi south to north through Athens.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Alabama, United States
- Population
- 118,942 2024 est.
- Land area
- 563.4 sq mi + 43.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 211 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Lincoln County, TN840 ft
- Giles County, TN820 ft
- Madison County790 ft
- Morgan County720 ft
- Limestone County700 ft
- Lawrence County690 ft
- Lauderdale County650 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Alabama17th highest of 67
- Counties in the United States2,029th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Baker Hill, Limestone County760 ft
All 8 towns in Limestone County by typical elevation
- Ardmore900 ft
- Elkmont830 ft
- Lester790 ft
- Athens710 ft
- Madison partly710 ft
- Huntsville partly660 ft
- Decatur partly590 ft
- Mooresville570 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, 450 ft at 34.6893° N, 86.9571° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.