West Blocton, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
630 ft 195 m570 ft 175 m530 ft 165 m470 ft 145 m400 ft 125 m370 ft 115 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
West Blocton sits at about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
490 ft 150 m
most residents: 470–550 ft
Lowest
370 ft 115 m
on the southeast side
Highest
630 ft 195 m
on the northwest side
Average
480 ft 145 m
all land inside town limits
West Blocton spans about 260 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 | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 630 ft195 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 370 ft115 m |
| Town center USGS map point for West Blocton | 500 ft150 m |
| Average of all land | 480 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Bibb County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 1,197 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.8 sq mi
- Density
- 249 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.1182° N, 87.1250° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Cahaba River → Alabama River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 35184
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pea Ridge700 ft
- Woodstock560 ft
- Lake View530 ft
- Brookwood510 ft
- West Blocton490 ft
- Vance470 ft
- Montevallo460 ft
- Wilton430 ft
- Coaling410 ft
- Brent280 ft
- Centreville260 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama314th highest of 595
- Towns in Bibb County2nd highest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sand Mountain, Bibb County750 ft
- Fountain Hill690 ft
- Gray Hill650 ft
- Little Mountain, Bibb County500 ft
- Big Mountain500 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).
- 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, 370 ft at 33.1076° N, 87.1010° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.