Fort Oglethorpe, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
950 ft 290 m880 ft 270 m840 ft 255 m770 ft 235 m700 ft 215 m670 ft 205 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
Fort Oglethorpe sits at about 720 ft (220 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
720 ft 220 m
most residents: 690–760 ft
Lowest
670 ft 205 m
on the northeast side
Highest
950 ft 290 m
on the southwest side
Average
740 ft 225 m
all land inside city limits
Fort Oglethorpe spans about 280 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 | 720 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 950 ft290 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 670 ft205 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fort Oglethorpe | 730 ft220 m |
| Airport (CHA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.0 mi northeast of the city limits | 683 ft208 m |
| Average of all land | 740 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Catoosa and Walker counties, Georgia, United States
- Population
- 10,614 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.9 sq mi
- Density
- 764 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.9490° N, 85.2569° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lovell Field (CHA) 683 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 30707 30736 30741 30742
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lookout Mountain, TN1,970 ft
- Lookout Mountain1,740 ft
- Fairview890 ft
- Ridgeside, TN830 ft
- Chattanooga Valley820 ft
- Indian Springs770 ft
- Chickamauga760 ft
- Lakeview760 ft
- East Ridge, TN730 ft
- Fort Oglethorpe720 ft
- Rossville690 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Georgia272nd highest of 676
- Towns in Catoosa Countylowest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Frog Mountain4,220 ft
- Cowpen Mountain4,151 ft
- Little Frog Mountain3,320 ft
- Oswald Dome3,022 ft
- Chestnut Mountain2,610 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.