Memphis, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
170 ft 55 m160 ft 50 m150 ft 45 m140 ft 40 m120 ft 35 m110 ft 35 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Memphis sits at about 170 ft (50 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside town limits (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
170 ft 50 m
few residents
Lowest
110 ft 35 m
on the east side
Highest
170 ft 55 m
on the west side
Average
160 ft 50 m
all land inside town limits
Memphis spans about 60 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 170 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 170 ft55 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 110 ft35 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Memphis | 170 ft50 m |
| Airport (AIV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi east of the town limits | 150 ft46 m |
| Average of all land | 160 ft50 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Pickens County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 24 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 62 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.1365° N, 88.2975° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Tombigbee River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- George Downer (AIV) 150 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 35442
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Macedonia320 ft
- Brooksville, MS270 ft
- Carrollton220 ft
- Shuqualak, MS220 ft
- Macon, MS200 ft
- McMullen200 ft
- Aliceville190 ft
- Pickensville190 ft
- Panola170 ft
- Memphis170 ft
- Geiger170 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama515th highest of 595
- Towns in Pickens Countylowest of 9
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the town limits; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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).
- 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, 110 ft at 33.1382° N, 88.2926° 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. All public domain.