Hancock County, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
740 ft 225 m630 ft 190 m570 ft 175 m450 ft 140 m340 ft 100 m280 ft 85 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
Hancock County averages about 480 ft (145 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 280 ft on the south side to 740 ft on the north side.
Average elevation
480 ft 145 m
all land inside the county
Highest
740 ft 225 m
on the north side
Lowest
280 ft 85 m
on the south side
Hancock County spans about 460 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 | 480 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the north side | 740 ft225 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 280 ft85 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
24 mi south to north through Sparta.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Georgia, United States
- Population
- 8,683 2024 est.
- Land area
- 471.1 sq mi + 6.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 18 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Piedmont 77%, Coastal Plain 23%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Greene County570 ft
- Taliaferro County540 ft
- Warren County490 ft
- Putnam County490 ft
- Hancock County480 ft
- Glascock County430 ft
- Baldwin County390 ft
- Washington County360 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Georgia72nd highest of 151
- Counties in the United States2,357th highest of 3,151
The one town in Hancock County
- Sparta550 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. 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.