Alto, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,450 ft 440 m1,370 ft 415 m1,330 ft 405 m1,240 ft 380 m1,160 ft 355 m1,120 ft 340 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
Alto sits at about 1,350 ft (410 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,350 ft 410 m
most residents: 1,280–1,400 ft
Lowest
1,120 ft 340 m
on the south side
Highest
1,450 ft 440 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,330 ft 405 m
all land inside town limits
Alto spans about 330 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 | 1,350 ft410 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 1,450 ft440 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Alto | 1,400 ft425 m |
| Airport (AJR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.9 mi northeast of the town limits | 1,448 ft441 m |
| Average of all land | 1,330 ft405 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Habersham and Banks counties, Georgia, United States
- Population
- 1,011 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 882 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.4673° N, 83.5738° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Hudson River → Broad River → Savannah River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Habersham County (AJR) 1,448 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 30510
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cornelia1,490 ft
- Baldwin1,480 ft
- Mount Airy1,480 ft
- Raoul1,430 ft
- Clermont1,390 ft
- Demorest1,370 ft
- Clarkesville1,360 ft
- Alto1,350 ft
- Lula1,270 ft
- Gillsville920 ft
- Homer810 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Georgia35th highest of 676
- Towns in Habersham Countylowest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brasstown Bald4,780 ft
- Blood Mountain4,459 ft
- Tray Mountain4,400 ft
- Yonah Mountain3,160 ft
- Oakey Mountain3,147 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).
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.