Montgomery, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
330 ft 100 m280 ft 85 m250 ft 75 m200 ft 60 m150 ft 45 m130 ft 40 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
Montgomery sits at about 230 ft (70 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
230 ft 70 m
most residents: 180–280 ft
Lowest
130 ft 40 m
on the northwest side
Highest
330 ft 100 m
near the middle
Average
210 ft 65 m
all land inside city limits
Montgomery 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 | 230 ft70 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 330 ft100 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 130 ft40 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Montgomery | 240 ft75 m |
| Airport (MGM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 221 ft67 m |
| Average of all land | 210 ft65 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
16 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Montgomery County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 195,818 2024 est.
- Land area
- 162.3 sq mi + 2.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,206 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.3668° N, 86.3000° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Alabama River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Montgomery Regional (Dannelly Field) (MGM) 221 ft
- ZIP codes 19
- 36043 36057 36064 36101 36104 36105 36106 36107 36108 36109 36110 36111 36112 36113 36114 36115 36116 36117 36130
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Deatsville480 ft
- Blue Ridge350 ft
- Redland340 ft
- Emerald Mountain330 ft
- Prattville320 ft
- Millbrook290 ft
- Pike Road240 ft
- Montgomery230 ft
- Elmore210 ft
- Coosada190 ft
- Wetumpka190 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama463rd highest of 595
- Towns in Montgomery Countylowest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Knob, Elmore County580 ft
- Cobbs Hill450 ft
- Gin Shop Hill450 ft
- Cantelous Hill350 ft
- Gunter Hill320 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, 120 ft at 32.4057° N, 86.2976° 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.