Pelham, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,290 ft 395 m1,070 ft 325 m960 ft 295 m740 ft 225 m520 ft 160 m410 ft 125 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
Pelham sits at about 520 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
520 ft 160 m
most residents: 450–670 ft
Lowest
410 ft 125 m
near the middle
Highest
1,290 ft 395 m
on the northeast side
Average
650 ft 200 m
all land inside city limits
Pelham spans about 880 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 | 520 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,290 ft395 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 410 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pelham | 490 ft150 m |
| Airport (EKY) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.6 mi west of the city limits | 700 ft213 m |
| Average of all land | 650 ft200 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Shelby County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 25,396 2024 est.
- Land area
- 38.8 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 655 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.2857° N, 86.8100° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Cahaba River → Alabama River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Bessemer Ntl (EKY) 700 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 35043 35124
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Eagle Point770 ft
- Pea Ridge700 ft
- Vestavia Hills660 ft
- Hoover610 ft
- Meadowbrook590 ft
- Chelsea560 ft
- Indian Springs Village550 ft
- Alabaster530 ft
- Pelham520 ft
- Brantleyville490 ft
- Helena480 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama292nd highest of 595
- Towns in Shelby County15th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cheaha Mountain2,413 ft
- Morton Hill2,070 ft
- Double Oak Mountain1,500 ft
- Johnson Mountain1,170 ft
- Little Valley Mountain800 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.