Madison, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,150 ft 350 m1,000 ft 305 m930 ft 285 m790 ft 240 m640 ft 195 m570 ft 175 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
Madison sits at about 710 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
710 ft 215 m
most residents: 650–790 ft
Lowest
570 ft 175 m
on the west side
Highest
1,150 ft 350 m
on Rainbow Mountain
Average
700 ft 215 m
all land inside city limits
Madison spans about 580 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 | 710 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Rainbow Mountain | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 570 ft175 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Madison | 710 ft215 m |
| Airport (HSV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.9 mi south of the city limits | 629 ft192 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Madison and Limestone counties, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 64,029 2024 est.
- Land area
- 30.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,093 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.6993° N, 86.7483° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Huntsville International-Carl T Jones Field (HSV) 629 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 35756 35758
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Harvest830 ft
- Meridianville760 ft
- Athens710 ft
- Madison710 ft
- Huntsville660 ft
- Redstone Arsenal650 ft
- Somerville640 ft
- Priceville610 ft
- Triana610 ft
- Decatur590 ft
- Mooresville570 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama142nd highest of 595
- Towns in Madison County6th highest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Weeden Mountain1,220 ft
- Rainbow Mountain1,150 ft
- Oakwood Mountain990 ft
- Ward Mountain900 ft
- Betts Mountain780 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. All public domain.