Jekyll Island, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
33 ft 10 m25 ft 8 m21 ft 6 m12 ft 4 m4 ft 1 m0 ft 0 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Jekyll Island sits at about 13 ft (4 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
13 ft 4 m
most residents: 2–15 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the north side
Highest
29 ft 9 m
near the middle
Average
7 ft 2 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Jekyll Island is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 29 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
28% of Jekyll Island's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and 18% lies less than 3 ft above it. Check flood zones on FEMA's map
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 13 ft4 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, near the middle | 29 ft9 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Jekyll Island | 14 ft4 m |
| Airport (BQK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.7 mi north of the CDP boundary | 26 ft8 m |
| Average of all land | 7 ft2 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Glynn County, Georgia, United States
- Population
- 866 2020 Census
- Land area
- 9.0 sq mi + 9.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 96 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 31.0601° N, 81.4220° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Brunswick Golden Isles (BQK) 26 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 31527
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kings Bay Base26 ft
- Darien20 ft
- Waverly16 ft
- Dock Junction15 ft
- Sterling15 ft
- Country Club Estates14 ft
- St. Marys14 ft
- Woodbine14 ft
- Jekyll Island13 ft
- Brunswick11 ft
- St. Simons9 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Georgia664th highest of 676
- Towns in Glynn County4th highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- London Hill26 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −4 ft at 31.1240° N, 81.3921° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Jekyll Island is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA tidal surfaces (MHHW). All public domain.