Elevation of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States of America
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States of America is 53 m (174 ft) above sea level.
Tuscaloosa's height from sea level is 53 metres, or 174 feet. GeoNames reads 69 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 68 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 62 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 60 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of Alabama, and 642nd of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through Tuscaloosa
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Tuscaloosa; the vertical scale is the same on both.
Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.
Peaks and passes near Tuscaloosa
- Sand Mountain, peak at 149 m (489 ft), 14.7 km to the SE — 96 m above the town.
- River Hill, peak at 69 m (226 ft), 0.2 km to the E — 16 m above the town.
- Holman Hill, peak at 69 m (226 ft), 2.4 km to the NW — 16 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Tuscaloosa is
Latitude 33.2098407, longitude -87.5691735. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.
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About this reading
The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Tuscaloosa's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 69 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.