Shoal Creek, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,500 ft 455 m1,300 ft 395 m1,200 ft 365 m1,000 ft 305 m800 ft 245 m700 ft 215 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Shoal Creek sits at about 840 ft (255 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
840 ft 255 m
most residents: 770–1,060 ft
Lowest
700 ft 215 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,500 ft 455 m
on the southeast side
Average
900 ft 275 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Shoal Creek spans about 800 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 | 840 ft255 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 1,500 ft455 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 700 ft215 m |
| Airport (BHM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 650 ft198 m |
| Average of all land | 900 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.5 mi west to east through the middle of Shoal Creek.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Shelby County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 1,668 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.0 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 331 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.4336° N, 86.6133° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Kelly Creek → Coosa River → Alabama River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International (BHM) 650 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 35242
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Shoal Creek840 ft
- Highland Lakes840 ft
- Eagle Point770 ft
- Dunnavant720 ft
- Leeds670 ft
- Meadowbrook590 ft
- Brook Highland580 ft
- Chelsea560 ft
- Vandiver550 ft
- Sterrett540 ft
- Westover500 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama73rd highest of 595
- Towns in Shelby Countyhighest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cheaha Mountain2,413 ft
- Morton Hill2,070 ft
- Signal Mountain1,573 ft
- Penitentiary Mountain, Shelby County1,530 ft
- Double Oak Mountain1,500 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Shoal Creek is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.