Winston County, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,020 ft 310 m880 ft 270 m820 ft 250 m680 ft 210 m550 ft 170 m480 ft 150 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
Winston County averages about 730 ft (225 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 480 ft on the southwest side to 1,020 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
730 ft 225 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,020 ft 310 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
480 ft 150 m
on the southwest side
Winston County spans about 540 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 | 730 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 480 ft150 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
21 mi south to north through Haleyville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Alabama, United States
- Population
- 23,869 2024 est.
- Land area
- 613.0 sq mi + 18.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 39 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus 99%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Cullman County760 ft
- Franklin County750 ft
- Winston County730 ft
- Lawrence County690 ft
- Marion County640 ft
- Walker County470 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Alabama14th highest of 67
- Counties in the United States1,967th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Balls Mountain1,000 ft
- Round Mountain, Winston County950 ft
- Millstone Mountain941 ft
- Hickory Knob910 ft
- Bald Rock, Winston County790 ft
All 6 towns in Winston County by typical elevation
- Haleyville930 ft
- Addison780 ft
- Double Springs780 ft
- Arley750 ft
- Natural Bridge750 ft
- Lynn670 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.
- 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.