Albany, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
270 ft 80 m240 ft 75 m230 ft 70 m200 ft 60 m180 ft 55 m170 ft 50 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Albany sits at about 200 ft (60 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
200 ft 60 m
most residents: 180–230 ft
Lowest
170 ft 50 m
on the south side
Highest
270 ft 80 m
on the northwest side
Average
200 ft 60 m
all land inside city limits
Albany spans about 100 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 | 200 ft60 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 270 ft80 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 170 ft50 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Albany | 200 ft60 m |
| Airport (ABY) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 196 ft60 m |
| Average of all land | 200 ft60 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Dougherty County, Georgia, United States
- Population
- 66,705 2024 est.
- Land area
- 55.1 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,211 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 31.5785° N, 84.1557° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Flint River → Apalachicola River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Southwest Georgia Regional (ABY) 196 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 31701 31705 31707 31721
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Georgia549th highest of 676
- Towns in Dougherty Countyhighest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Fossil Sand Dunes (historical)240 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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, 170 ft at 31.5515° N, 84.1440° 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.