Walker County, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
810 ft 245 m670 ft 205 m600 ft 185 m460 ft 140 m320 ft 100 m250 ft 80 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
Walker County averages about 470 ft (145 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 250 ft on the south side to 810 ft on Lockhart Hill.
Average elevation
470 ft 145 m
all land inside the county
Highest
810 ft 245 m
on Lockhart Hill
Lowest
250 ft 75 m
on the south side
Walker County spans about 560 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 | 470 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Lockhart Hill | 810 ft245 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 250 ft75 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
33 mi west to east through Jasper.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Alabama, United States
- Population
- 65,260 2024 est.
- Land area
- 791.1 sq mi + 14.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 82 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus 98%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Blount County790 ft
- Cullman County760 ft
- Winston County730 ft
- Marion County640 ft
- Jefferson County580 ft
- Fayette County480 ft
- Walker County470 ft
- Tuscaloosa County360 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Alabama31st highest of 67
- Counties in the United States2,364th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Lockhart Hill810 ft
- Cooner Mountain800 ft
- Seamore Mountain790 ft
- Frost Hill760 ft
- Sleepy Mountain760 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, 810 ft at 33.7662° N, 87.4915° 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 220 ft at 33.8088° N, 87.1057° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.