Cherokee County, GA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

2,340 ft 715 m1,940 ft 590 m1,740 ft 530 m1,340 ft 410 m940 ft 285 m740 ft 225 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Cherokee County averages about 1,080 ft (330 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 740 ft on the northeast side to 2,338 ft on Pine Log Mountain.

Average elevation

1,080 ft 330 m

all land inside the county

Highest

2,338 ft 713 m

on Pine Log Mountain

Lowest

740 ft 225 m

on the northeast side

Cherokee County spans about 1,600 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	1,080 ft330 m
Highest point Inside the county, on Pine Log Mountain (NGS survey height)	2,338 ft713 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side	740 ft225 m

Elevation profile, south to north

21 mi south to north through Woodstock.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Georgia, United States
Population: 293,513 2024 est.
Land area: 421.0 sq mi + 13.3 sq mi water
Density: 697 per sq mi
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Piedmont
Drains to: Gulf of America

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Dawson County1,500 ft
Pickens County1,410 ft
Forsyth County1,150 ft
Cherokee County1,080 ft
Cobb County1,000 ft
Fulton County940 ft
Bartow County850 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Georgia17th highest of 151
Counties in the United States1,275th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Pine Log Mountain2,338 ft
Bear Mountain2,300 ft
Dry Pond Mountain1,670 ft
Hickory Log Mountain1,550 ft
Polecat Mountain1,500 ft

All 7 towns in Cherokee County by typical elevation

Nelson1,270 ft
Waleska1,120 ft
Ball Ground1,110 ft
Holly Springs1,050 ft
Canton1,010 ft
City of Mountain Park partly1,000 ft
Woodstock950 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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, 710 ft at 34.3596° N, 84.3549° 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.