Prichard, AL Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Prichard, Alabama, shaded from 0 ft on the north side to 320 ft on the west side
Elevation
320 ft 100 m240 ft 75 m200 ft 60 m120 ft 35 m40 ft 12 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
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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
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The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
Measure
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City area
Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Prichard sits at about 39 ft (12 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation
39 ft 12 m
most residents: 28–160 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the north side
Highest
320 ft 100 m
on the west side
Average
66 ft 20 m
all land inside city limits

Prichard spans about 320 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.

FigureElevation
Typical
Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower
39 ft12 m
Highest point
Inside city limits, on the west side
320 ft100 m
Lowest point
Inside city limits, on the north side
0 ft0 m
Town center
USGS map point for Prichard
28 ft9 m
Airport (MOB)
FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.7 mi west of the city limits
219 ft67 m
Average of all land66 ft20 m

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Prichard, Alabama, shaded from 0 ft on the north side to 320 ft on the west side
City limits (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 20 ft (6 m).
Location
City in Mobile County, Alabama, United States
Population
18,778 2024 est.
Land area
25.4 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
Density
739 per sq mi
Coordinates
30.7388° N, 88.0789° W
Time zone
Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region
Coastal Plain
Drains to
Gulf of America
Airport
Mobile Regional (MOB) 219 ft
ZIP codes 5
36571 36610 36612 36613 36663
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

  1. Semmes210 ft
  2. Tillmans Corner140 ft
  3. Daphne130 ft
  4. Spanish Fort130 ft
  5. Mobile74 ft
  6. Prichard39 ft
  7. Saraland36 ft
  8. Chickasaw32 ft
  9. Axis23 ft
  10. Creola21 ft
  11. Satsuma20 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

  • Stony Hill210 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, 0 ft at 30.7874° N, 88.1015° 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.