Rainsville, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,380 ft 420 m1,310 ft 400 m1,270 ft 385 m1,190 ft 365 m1,120 ft 340 m1,080 ft 330 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
Rainsville sits at about 1,270 ft (390 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,270 ft 390 m
most residents: 1,220–1,320 ft
Lowest
1,080 ft 330 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,380 ft 420 m
on the north side
Average
1,260 ft 385 m
all land inside city limits
Rainsville spans about 300 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 | 1,270 ft390 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,380 ft420 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rainsville | 1,290 ft395 m |
| Airport (4A9) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.4 mi east of the city limits | 877 ft267 m |
| Average of all land | 1,260 ft385 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 5,931 2024 est.
- Land area
- 20.7 sq mi
- Density
- 286 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.4943° N, 85.8477° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Isbell Field (4A9) 877 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 35968 35986
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Henagar1,460 ft
- Dutton1,360 ft
- Sylvania1,350 ft
- Section1,320 ft
- Rainsville1,270 ft
- Fyffe1,250 ft
- Shiloh1,250 ft
- Powell1,250 ft
- Lakeview1,150 ft
- Pine Ridge990 ft
- Fort Payne970 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama11th highest of 595
- Towns in DeKalb County5th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dugger Mountain2,130 ft
- Morton Hill2,070 ft
- Castle Rock1,750 ft
- Mount Brandon1,670 ft
- Zion Hill1,230 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.