Georgetown, DE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
72 ft 22 m64 ft 20 m60 ft 18 m52 ft 16 m43 ft 13 m39 ft 12 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
Georgetown sits at about 49 ft (15 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
49 ft 15 m
most residents: 46–52 ft
Lowest
39 ft 12 m
on the west side
Highest
71 ft 21 m
on the east side
Average
48 ft 15 m
all land inside town limits
Georgetown spans about 32 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 | 49 ft15 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 71 ft21 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 39 ft12 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Georgetown | 54 ft16 m |
| Airport (GED) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.4 mi east of the town limits | 53 ft16 m |
| Average of all land | 48 ft15 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States
- Population
- 8,098 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.0 sq mi
- Density
- 1,613 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.6901° N, 75.3855° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Delaware Coastal (GED) 53 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 19947
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Delaware31st highest of 79
- Towns in Sussex County3rd highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Wilson Hill53 ft
- Terrapin Hill44 ft
- Pine Hill42 ft
- Rattlesnake Hill31 ft
- Sugar Hill23 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, 39 ft at 38.7001° N, 75.3751° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.