Gainesville, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,340 ft 410 m1,230 ft 375 m1,170 ft 360 m1,060 ft 325 m950 ft 290 m890 ft 270 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Gainesville sits at about 1,200 ft (365 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,200 ft 365 m
most residents: 1,130–1,260 ft
Lowest
890 ft 270 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,340 ft 410 m
near the middle
Average
1,160 ft 355 m
all land inside city limits
Gainesville spans about 450 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 | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 1,340 ft410 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 890 ft270 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gainesville | 1,240 ft380 m |
| Airport (GVL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,277 ft389 m |
| Average of all land | 1,160 ft355 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Hall County, Georgia, United States
- Population
- 47,712 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.0 sq mi + 2.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,404 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.2979° N, 83.8241° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Chattahoochee River → Apalachicola River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lee Gilmer Memorial (GVL) 1,277 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 30501 30504 30506 30507
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Clermont1,390 ft
- Lula1,270 ft
- Gainesville1,200 ft
- Oakwood1,190 ft
- Rest Haven1,130 ft
- Flowery Branch1,100 ft
- Gillsville920 ft
- Talmo890 ft
- Braselton880 ft
- Hoschton880 ft
- Pendergrass780 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Georgia42nd highest of 676
- Towns in Hall County3rd highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blood Mountain4,459 ft
- Tray Mountain4,400 ft
- Burnt Mountain3,280 ft
- Yonah Mountain3,160 ft
- Oakey Mountain3,147 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.