Emerson, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,350 ft 410 m1,180 ft 360 m1,100 ft 335 m940 ft 285 m770 ft 235 m690 ft 210 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
Emerson sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 800–900 ft
Lowest
690 ft 210 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,350 ft 410 m
on Vineyard Mountain
Average
870 ft 265 m
all land inside city limits
Emerson spans about 660 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Vineyard Mountain | 1,350 ft410 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 690 ft210 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Emerson | 830 ft255 m |
| Airport (VPC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.7 mi west of the city limits | 759 ft231 m |
| Average of all land | 870 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Bartow County, Georgia, United States
- Population
- 2,192 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.9 sq mi
- Density
- 247 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.1270° N, 84.7555° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Etowah River → Coosa River → Alabama River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Cartersville (VPC) 759 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 30120 30121 30137
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kennesaw State University1,070 ft
- Kennesaw1,040 ft
- Dallas1,030 ft
- Woodstock950 ft
- Acworth930 ft
- White860 ft
- Emerson850 ft
- Cartersville760 ft
- Taylorsville740 ft
- Euharlee720 ft
- Kingston700 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Georgia182nd highest of 676
- Towns in Bartow County2nd highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cowpen Mountain4,151 ft
- Big Bald Mountain4,080 ft
- Burnt Mountain3,280 ft
- Pine Log Mountain2,338 ft
- Dugger Mountain2,130 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.