Birmingham, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
880 ft 270 m840 ft 255 m820 ft 250 m780 ft 240 m740 ft 225 m720 ft 220 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Birmingham sits at about 740 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
740 ft 225 m
most residents: 730–740 ft
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the northeast side
Highest
880 ft 270 m
on the northwest side
Average
750 ft 230 m
all land inside village limits
Birmingham spans about 160 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 | 740 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northwest side | 880 ft270 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the northeast side | 720 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Birmingham | 740 ft225 m |
| Airport (MKC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.8 mi west of the village limits | 757 ft231 m |
| Average of all land | 750 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Clay County, Missouri, United States
- Population
- 189 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 336 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.1658° N, 94.4513° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Kansas City Downtown/Wheeler Field (MKC) 757 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 64161
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Independence910 ft
- Blue Summit870 ft
- Liberty860 ft
- Sugar Creek860 ft
- Avondale840 ft
- Pleasant Valley820 ft
- Claycomo800 ft
- Glenaire790 ft
- Randolph760 ft
- Birmingham740 ft
- River Bend730 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Missouri941st highest of 1,352
- Towns in Clay Countylowest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Nebo Hill950 ft
- Arsenal Hill910 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 village 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. All public domain.