Sylacauga, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
900 ft 275 m780 ft 240 m720 ft 220 m610 ft 185 m490 ft 150 m440 ft 135 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
Sylacauga sits at about 560 ft (170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
560 ft 170 m
most residents: 520–650 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the north side
Highest
900 ft 275 m
on the southeast side
Average
590 ft 180 m
all land inside city limits
Sylacauga spans about 460 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 | 560 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 900 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 440 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sylacauga | 540 ft165 m |
| Airport (SCD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 569 ft173 m |
| Average of all land | 590 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Talladega County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 12,123 2024 est.
- Land area
- 20.3 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 599 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.1732° N, 86.2516° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Coosa River → Alabama River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Merkel Field Sylacauga Municipal (SCD) 569 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 35014 35150 35151
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Olive, Coosa County830 ft
- Hollins810 ft
- Stewartville740 ft
- Weogufka680 ft
- Sylacauga560 ft
- Oak Grove560 ft
- Mignon520 ft
- Talladega Springs490 ft
- Fayetteville440 ft
- Childersburg430 ft
- Bon Air430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama254th highest of 595
- Towns in Talladega County4th highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cheaha Mountain2,413 ft
- Dugger Mountain2,130 ft
- Morton Hill2,070 ft
- Herds Mountain840 ft
- Marble Hill560 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.