Sumter County, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
450 ft 135 m350 ft 105 m290 ft 90 m190 ft 60 m88 ft 27 m37 ft 11 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sumter County averages about 180 ft (55 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 37 ft on the southeast side to 450 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
180 ft 55 m
all land inside the county
Highest
450 ft 135 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
37 ft 11 m
on the southeast side
Sumter County spans about 413 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 180 ft55 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 450 ft135 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 37 ft11 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
29 mi west to east through Livingston.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Alabama, United States
- Population
- 11,607 2024 est.
- Land area
- 903.8 sq mi + 9.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 13 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Lauderdale County, MS380 ft
- Kemper County, MS340 ft
- Pickens County270 ft
- Noxubee County, MS230 ft
- Choctaw County200 ft
- Sumter County180 ft
- Greene County170 ft
- Marengo County170 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Alabama62nd highest of 67
- Counties in the United States2,813th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Alamuchee Hill390 ft
- Thornton Hill360 ft
- Armstrong Hill350 ft
- Soctum Hill220 ft
- Baldwin Hill190 ft
All 9 towns in Sumter County by typical elevation
- Emelle260 ft
- Cuba220 ft
- York200 ft
- Panola170 ft
- Geiger170 ft
- Livingston160 ft
- Epes150 ft
- Gainesville130 ft
- Bellamy100 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.