Gilmer County, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,080 ft 1,245 m3,230 ft 985 m2,810 ft 855 m1,960 ft 600 m1,120 ft 340 m690 ft 210 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
Gilmer County averages about 1,830 ft (560 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 690 ft on the southwest side to 4,080 ft on Big Bald Mountain.
Average elevation
1,830 ft 560 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,080 ft 1,245 m
on Big Bald Mountain
Lowest
690 ft 210 m
on the southwest side
Gilmer County spans about 3,390 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 | 1,830 ft560 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Big Bald Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 4,080 ft1,245 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 690 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
21 mi south to north through Ellijay.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Georgia, United States
- Population
- 33,327 2024 est.
- Land area
- 426.2 sq mi + 4.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 78 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Blue Ridge 60%, Piedmont 39%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Fannin County2,120 ft
- Gilmer County1,830 ft
- Dawson County1,500 ft
- Pickens County1,410 ft
- Murray County1,090 ft
- Gordon County750 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Georgia5th highest of 151
- Counties in the United States677th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Big Bald Mountain4,080 ft
- Rich Mountain, Gilmer County4,051 ft
- Tickanetley Bald4,000 ft
- Little Bald Mountain, Gilmer County3,980 ft
- Cold Mountain3,840 ft
All 3 towns in Gilmer County by typical elevation
- Cherry Log1,860 ft
- Ellijay1,430 ft
- East Ellijay1,380 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.
- 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.