Tuscaloosa County, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
780 ft 240 m610 ft 185 m530 ft 160 m360 ft 110 m180 ft 55 m99 ft 30 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
Tuscaloosa County averages about 360 ft (110 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 99 ft on the southwest side to 780 ft on Round Mountain.
Average elevation
360 ft 110 m
all land inside the county
Highest
780 ft 240 m
on Round Mountain
Lowest
99 ft 30 m
on the southwest side
Tuscaloosa County spans about 681 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 | 360 ft110 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Round Mountain | 780 ft240 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 99 ft30 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
38 mi west to east through Tuscaloosa.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Alabama, United States
- Population
- 241,212 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,320.9 sq mi + 30.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 183 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Coastal Plain 75%, Appalachian Plateaus 22%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Jefferson County580 ft
- Fayette County480 ft
- Walker County470 ft
- Bibb County410 ft
- Tuscaloosa County360 ft
- Pickens County270 ft
- Hale County210 ft
- Greene County170 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Alabama39th highest of 67
- Counties in the United States2,529th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Round Mountain, Tuscaloosa County780 ft
- Martha Washington Mountain700 ft
- West Red Mountain, Tuscaloosa County700 ft
- Thompson Mountain680 ft
- Iron Ore Mountain650 ft
All 11 towns in Tuscaloosa County by typical elevation
- Woodstock partly560 ft
- Lake View530 ft
- Brookwood510 ft
- Vance470 ft
- Coaling410 ft
- Holt350 ft
- Cottondale320 ft
- Northport230 ft
- Tuscaloosa220 ft
- Moundville partly200 ft
- Coker190 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.
- Highest ground: the single highest 3DEP cell, 790 ft at 33.2893° N, 87.1049° W, has no federal (GNIS) summit name within 980 ft (300 m), so the high point shown is the highest of the 25 highest cells with a GNIS summit within 1,640 ft (500 m).
- 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.