Fannin County, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,150 ft 1,265 m3,360 ft 1,025 m2,970 ft 905 m2,180 ft 665 m1,390 ft 425 m1,000 ft 305 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
Fannin County averages about 2,120 ft (650 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,000 ft on the northwest side to 4,151 ft on Cowpen Mountain.
Average elevation
2,120 ft 650 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,151 ft 1,265 m
on Cowpen Mountain
Lowest
1,000 ft 305 m
on the northwest side
Fannin County spans about 3,150 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 | 2,120 ft650 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Cowpen Mountain (NGS survey height) | 4,151 ft1,265 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 1,000 ft305 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
28 mi west to east through Blue Ridge.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Georgia, United States
- Population
- 25,854 2024 est.
- Land area
- 387.2 sq mi + 5.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 67 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Union County2,370 ft
- Cherokee County, NC2,130 ft
- Fannin County2,120 ft
- Gilmer County1,830 ft
- Lumpkin County1,680 ft
- Dawson County1,500 ft
- Polk County, TN1,380 ft
- Murray County1,090 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Georgia4th highest of 151
- Counties in the United States584th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Cowpen Mountain4,151 ft
- Springer Mountain3,780 ft
- Flat Top Mountain3,730 ft
- Ball Mountain, Fannin County3,650 ft
- Three Forks Mountain3,610 ft
All 5 towns in Fannin County by typical elevation
- Morganton1,770 ft
- Epworth1,770 ft
- Blue Ridge1,740 ft
- Mineral Bluff1,660 ft
- McCaysville1,620 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, 990 ft at 34.9838° N, 84.6215° 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.