Snead, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
830 ft 250 m790 ft 240 m780 ft 235 m740 ft 225 m710 ft 215 m700 ft 210 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
Snead sits at about 790 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
790 ft 240 m
most residents: 740–810 ft
Lowest
700 ft 210 m
on the northwest side
Highest
830 ft 250 m
on the north side
Average
790 ft 240 m
all land inside town limits
Snead spans about 130 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 | 790 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 830 ft250 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 700 ft210 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Snead | 790 ft240 m |
| Average of all land | 790 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Blount County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 1,046 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.7 sq mi
- Density
- 184 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.1195° N, 86.3955° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Locust Fork → Black Warrior River → Tombigbee River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 35952
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- New Union1,110 ft
- Altoona950 ft
- Douglas930 ft
- Bristow Cove910 ft
- Walnut Grove890 ft
- Oneonta880 ft
- Gallant810 ft
- Snead790 ft
- Susan Moore790 ft
- Blountsville780 ft
- Rosa730 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama94th highest of 595
- Towns in Blount County5th highest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cheaha Mountain2,413 ft
- Dugger Mountain2,130 ft
- Morton Hill2,070 ft
- Altoona Mountain1,300 ft
- Sam Hopper Mountain1,140 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.