Dawson County, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,590 ft 1,095 m2,930 ft 895 m2,610 ft 795 m1,950 ft 595 m1,300 ft 395 m970 ft 295 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
Dawson County averages about 1,500 ft (455 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 970 ft on the southwest side to 3,590 ft on Amicalola Mountain.
Average elevation
1,500 ft 455 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,590 ft 1,095 m
on Amicalola Mountain
Lowest
970 ft 295 m
on the southwest side
Dawson County spans about 2,620 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 | 1,500 ft455 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Amicalola Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 3,590 ft1,095 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 970 ft295 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.8 mi south to north through Dawsonville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Georgia, United States
- Population
- 33,748 2024 est.
- Land area
- 210.8 sq mi + 3.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 160 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Piedmont 76%, Blue Ridge 24%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Fannin County2,120 ft
- Gilmer County1,830 ft
- Lumpkin County1,680 ft
- Dawson County1,500 ft
- Pickens County1,410 ft
- Forsyth County1,150 ft
- Hall County1,140 ft
- Cherokee County1,080 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Georgia9th highest of 151
- Counties in the United States856th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Amicalola Mountain3,590 ft
- Frosty Mountain3,380 ft
- Sanderlin Mountain3,020 ft
- Wet Mountain2,560 ft
- McElory Mountain2,270 ft
The one town in Dawson County
- Dawsonville1,360 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.
- 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.