Baldwin, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,620 ft 495 m1,460 ft 445 m1,380 ft 420 m1,210 ft 370 m1,050 ft 320 m970 ft 295 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Baldwin sits at about 1,480 ft (450 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,480 ft 450 m
most residents: 1,330–1,560 ft
Lowest
970 ft 295 m
on the south side
Highest
1,620 ft 495 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,360 ft 415 m
all land inside city limits
Baldwin spans about 650 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 | 1,480 ft450 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,620 ft495 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 970 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Baldwin | 1,530 ft470 m |
| Airport (AJR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.1 mi northwest of the city limits | 1,448 ft441 m |
| Average of all land | 1,360 ft415 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Habersham and Banks counties, Georgia, United States
- Population
- 4,217 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.2 sq mi
- Density
- 816 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.4918° N, 83.5374° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Chattahoochee River → Apalachicola River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Habersham County (AJR) 1,448 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 30510 30511 30531
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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
- Toccoa980 ft
- Homer810 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Georgia23rd highest of 676
- Towns in Habersham County2nd highest 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 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).
- 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.