Athens-Clarke County unified government, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
860 ft 260 m770 ft 235 m730 ft 220 m640 ft 195 m550 ft 170 m510 ft 155 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Athens-Clarke County unified government sits at about 710 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
710 ft 215 m
most residents: 630–760 ft
Lowest
510 ft 155 m
on the southeast side
Highest
860 ft 260 m
on the northwest side
Average
700 ft 215 m
all land inside city limits
Athens-Clarke County unified government spans about 350 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 | 710 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 860 ft260 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 510 ft155 m |
| Airport (AHN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 812 ft247 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
14 mi west to east through the middle of Athens-Clarke County unified government.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Consolidated city and county in Georgia, United States
- Population
- 128,691 2024 est.
- Land area
- 116.4 sq mi + 1.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,105 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.9495° N, 83.3820° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Oconee River → Altamaha River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Athens/Ben Epps (AHN) 812 ft
- ZIP codes 8
- 30601 30602 30605 30606 30607 30609 30622 30683
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Statham880 ft
- Nicholson820 ft
- Bogart810 ft
- Hull790 ft
- Bishop780 ft
- Winterville770 ft
- Arnoldsville760 ft
- Colbert740 ft
- Watkinsville720 ft
- North High Shoals710 ft
- Athens-Clarke County unified government710 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Georgia280th highest of 676
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blood Mountain4,459 ft
- Tray Mountain4,400 ft
- Burnt Mountain3,280 ft
- Yonah Mountain3,160 ft
- Oakey Mountain3,147 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, 380 ft at 33.9537° N, 83.3349° 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.