Columbus, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
690 ft 210 m560 ft 170 m500 ft 150 m370 ft 115 m240 ft 75 m180 ft 55 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
Columbus sits at about 370 ft (115 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
370 ft 115 m
most residents: 260–480 ft
Lowest
180 ft 55 m
on the south side
Highest
690 ft 210 m
on the north side
Average
390 ft 120 m
all land inside city limits
Columbus spans about 510 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 | 370 ft115 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 690 ft210 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 180 ft55 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Columbus | 240 ft75 m |
| Airport (CSG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 398 ft121 m |
| Average of all land | 390 ft120 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
16 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Consolidated city and county in Georgia, United States
- Population
- 201,830 2024 est.
- Land area
- 216.5 sq mi + 4.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 932 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.4610° N, 84.9877° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Chattahoochee River → Apalachicola River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Columbus (CSG) 398 ft
- ZIP codes 11
- 31801 31808 31820 31829 31901 31903 31904 31905 31906 31907 31909
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Waverly Hall720 ft
- Ellerslie690 ft
- Cataula630 ft
- Antioch590 ft
- Piney Grove540 ft
- Smiths Station, AL460 ft
- Box Springs450 ft
- Ladonia, AL430 ft
- Columbus370 ft
- Phenix City, AL360 ft
- Cusseta-Chattahoochee County340 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Georgia403rd highest of 676
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Rockwell Hill460 ft
- Clapp Hill460 ft
- Riche Hill420 ft
- Cleveland Hill410 ft
- Watson Hill390 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, 40 ft at 32.5854° N, 84.9543° 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. All public domain.