Decatur, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,070 ft 325 m1,030 ft 315 m1,010 ft 305 m960 ft 295 m920 ft 280 m900 ft 275 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
Decatur sits at about 1,010 ft (305 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,010 ft 305 m
most residents: 970–1,040 ft
Lowest
900 ft 275 m
on the north side
Highest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,000 ft 305 m
all land inside city limits
Decatur spans about 170 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 | 1,010 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 900 ft275 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Decatur | 1,040 ft320 m |
| Airport (ATL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi southwest of the city limits | 1,026 ft313 m |
| Average of all land | 1,000 ft305 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States
- Population
- 24,482 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.6 sq mi
- Density
- 5,314 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.7748° N, 84.2963° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Chattahoochee River → Apalachicola River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) 1,026 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 30030
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Avondale Estates1,030 ft
- Decatur1,010 ft
- Clarkston990 ft
- Scottdale980 ft
- North Decatur980 ft
- Belvedere Park970 ft
- North Druid Hills940 ft
- Druid Hills930 ft
- Candler-McAfee930 ft
- Gresham Park890 ft
- Panthersville860 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Georgia85th highest of 676
- Towns in DeKalb County4th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Burnt Mountain3,280 ft
- Pine Log Mountain2,338 ft
- Leggetts Hill (historical)1,060 ft
- Dabneys Hill1,040 ft
- Druid Hill1,020 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.