Section, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,400 ft 425 m1,240 ft 380 m1,160 ft 355 m1,010 ft 305 m850 ft 260 m770 ft 235 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Section sits at about 1,320 ft (405 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,320 ft 405 m
most residents: 1,180–1,340 ft
Lowest
770 ft 235 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,400 ft 425 m
on the north side
Average
1,300 ft 400 m
all land inside town limits
Section spans about 630 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 | 1,320 ft405 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 1,400 ft425 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 770 ft235 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Section | 1,340 ft410 m |
| Airport (4A6) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.1 mi north of the town limits | 651 ft198 m |
| Average of all land | 1,300 ft400 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 773 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.6 sq mi
- Density
- 169 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.5790° N, 85.9866° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Scottsboro Municipal-Word Field (4A6) 651 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 35771
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Dutton1,360 ft
- Pisgah1,360 ft
- Sylvania1,350 ft
- Section1,320 ft
- Rainsville1,270 ft
- Fyffe1,250 ft
- Shiloh1,250 ft
- Powell1,250 ft
- Hollywood630 ft
- Langston630 ft
- Scottsboro630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama10th highest of 595
- Towns in Jackson County6th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dugger Mountain2,130 ft
- Morton Hill2,070 ft
- Tater Knob, Jackson County1,370 ft
- July Mountain1,350 ft
- Zion Hill1,230 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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. All public domain.