Gordon County, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,840 ft 560 m1,520 ft 465 m1,370 ft 415 m1,060 ft 320 m740 ft 225 m590 ft 180 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
Gordon County averages about 750 ft (230 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 590 ft on the southwest side to 1,836 ft on Horn Mountain.
Average elevation
750 ft 230 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,836 ft 560 m
on Horn Mountain
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the southwest side
Gordon County spans about 1,250 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 | 750 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Horn Mountain (NGS survey height) | 1,836 ft560 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 590 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
25 mi west to east through Calhoun.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Georgia, United States
- Population
- 60,765 2024 est.
- Land area
- 356.5 sq mi + 2.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 170 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge 99%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Gilmer County1,830 ft
- Pickens County1,410 ft
- Murray County1,090 ft
- Walker County1,090 ft
- Bartow County850 ft
- Whitfield County850 ft
- Gordon County750 ft
- Floyd County740 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Georgia46th highest of 151
- Counties in the United States1,916th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Horn Mountain1,836 ft
- Baugh Mountain1,190 ft
- Carter Mountain1,100 ft
- Ramsaeur Mountain1,090 ft
- Brogdon Hill906 ft
All 5 towns in Gordon County by typical elevation
- Ranger760 ft
- Fairmount760 ft
- Plainville680 ft
- Calhoun670 ft
- Resaca660 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.