Burke County, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
470 ft 145 m370 ft 115 m320 ft 100 m220 ft 70 m120 ft 35 m73 ft 22 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Burke County averages about 260 ft (80 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 73 ft on the east side to 470 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
260 ft 80 m
all land inside the county
Highest
470 ft 145 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
73 ft 22 m
on the east side
Burke County spans about 397 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 260 ft80 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 470 ft145 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 73 ft22 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
39 mi west to east through Waynesboro.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Georgia, United States
- Population
- 24,472 2024 est.
- Land area
- 827.0 sq mi + 7.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 30 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Aiken County, SC370 ft
- Jefferson County330 ft
- Richmond County300 ft
- Burke County260 ft
- Emanuel County260 ft
- Barnwell County, SC240 ft
- Jenkins County210 ft
- Allendale County, SC150 ft
- Screven County150 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Georgia105th highest of 151
- Counties in the United States2,686th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Potlikker Hill170 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, 71 ft at 33.1540° N, 81.7596° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.