Vance, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
740 ft 225 m650 ft 200 m610 ft 185 m520 ft 160 m430 ft 130 m380 ft 115 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
Vance sits at about 470 ft (140 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
470 ft 140 m
most residents: 460–530 ft
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the west side
Highest
740 ft 225 m
on the northeast side
Average
520 ft 160 m
all land inside city limits
Vance spans about 360 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 | 470 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 740 ft225 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 380 ft115 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Vance | 510 ft155 m |
| Average of all land | 520 ft160 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Tuscaloosa and Bibb counties, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 2,303 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.2 sq mi
- Density
- 226 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.1743° N, 87.2336° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Black Warrior River → Tombigbee River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 3
- 35184 35188 35490
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Woodstock560 ft
- Lake View530 ft
- Brookwood510 ft
- West Blocton490 ft
- Vance470 ft
- North Johns460 ft
- Coaling410 ft
- Holt350 ft
- Cottondale320 ft
- Brent280 ft
- Centreville260 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama325th highest of 595
- Towns in Tuscaloosa County3rd highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sand Mountain, Bibb County750 ft
- Martha Washington Mountain700 ft
- West Red Mountain, Tuscaloosa County700 ft
- Fountain Hill690 ft
- Gray Hill650 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.