Pickens County, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
620 ft 190 m490 ft 150 m430 ft 130 m300 ft 90 m170 ft 50 m110 ft 35 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
Pickens County averages about 270 ft (85 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 110 ft on the southwest side to 620 ft on the northeast side.
Average elevation
270 ft 85 m
all land inside the county
Highest
620 ft 190 m
on the northeast side
Lowest
110 ft 35 m
on the southwest side
Pickens County spans about 510 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 | 270 ft85 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 620 ft190 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 110 ft35 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
35 mi south to north through Aliceville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Alabama, United States
- Population
- 18,508 2024 est.
- Land area
- 881.4 sq mi + 8.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 21 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Fayette County480 ft
- Lamar County390 ft
- Tuscaloosa County360 ft
- Pickens County270 ft
- Noxubee County, MS230 ft
- Lowndes County, MS220 ft
- Sumter County180 ft
- Greene County170 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Alabama50th highest of 67
- Counties in the United States2,666th highest of 3,151
All 9 towns in Pickens County by typical elevation
- Ethelsville360 ft
- Macedonia320 ft
- Gordo270 ft
- Reform250 ft
- Carrollton220 ft
- McMullen200 ft
- Aliceville190 ft
- Pickensville190 ft
- Memphis170 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.