Morgan County, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,320 ft 405 m1,100 ft 335 m990 ft 300 m770 ft 235 m540 ft 165 m430 ft 130 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
Morgan County averages about 720 ft (220 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 430 ft on the northwest side to 1,320 ft on the east side.
Average elevation
720 ft 220 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,320 ft 405 m
on the east side
Lowest
430 ft 130 m
on the northwest side
Morgan County spans about 890 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 | 720 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the east side | 1,320 ft405 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 430 ft130 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
21 mi south to north through Decatur.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Alabama, United States
- Population
- 126,084 2024 est.
- Land area
- 579.7 sq mi + 19.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 218 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Interior Low Plateaus 56%, Appalachian Plateaus 44%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Marshall County920 ft
- Madison County790 ft
- Cullman County760 ft
- Morgan County720 ft
- Limestone County700 ft
- Lawrence County690 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Alabama16th highest of 67
- Counties in the United States1,989th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Whitesburg Mountain1,280 ft
- Georgia Mountain, Morgan County1,280 ft
- Bell Point1,270 ft
- Lehman Point1,250 ft
- Husky Mountain1,250 ft
All 8 towns in Morgan County by typical elevation
- Eva1,060 ft
- Hartselle680 ft
- Huntsville partly660 ft
- Trinity660 ft
- Somerville640 ft
- Priceville610 ft
- Falkville600 ft
- Decatur590 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.
- 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.