Valley Head, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,570 ft 480 m1,420 ft 430 m1,340 ft 410 m1,180 ft 360 m1,030 ft 315 m950 ft 290 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
Valley Head sits at about 1,070 ft (325 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,070 ft 325 m
most residents: 1,010–1,120 ft
Lowest
950 ft 290 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,570 ft 480 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,080 ft 330 m
all land inside town limits
Valley Head spans about 620 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 | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 1,570 ft480 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 950 ft290 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Valley Head | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Airport (4A9) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.3 mi southwest of the town limits | 877 ft267 m |
| Average of all land | 1,080 ft330 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 595 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.8 sq mi
- Density
- 158 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.5690° N, 85.6150° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Big Wills Creek → Coosa River → Alabama River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Isbell Field (4A9) 877 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 35989
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mentone1,700 ft
- Ider1,550 ft
- Henagar1,460 ft
- Pisgah1,360 ft
- Sylvania1,350 ft
- Rainsville1,270 ft
- Valley Head1,070 ft
- Hammondville1,000 ft
- Pine Ridge990 ft
- Fort Payne970 ft
- Menlo, GA810 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama23rd highest of 595
- Towns in DeKalb County13th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dugger Mountain2,130 ft
- Morton Hill2,070 ft
- Fox Mountain1,975 ft
- Little Mountain, DeKalb County1,840 ft
- Castle Rock1,750 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.