Jonesboro, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
960 ft 290 m920 ft 280 m900 ft 275 m870 ft 265 m830 ft 255 m820 ft 250 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Jonesboro sits at about 900 ft (275 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
900 ft 275 m
most residents: 870–930 ft
Lowest
820 ft 250 m
on the east side
Highest
960 ft 290 m
on the north side
Average
890 ft 275 m
all land inside city limits
Jonesboro spans about 140 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 | 900 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 960 ft290 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 820 ft250 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Jonesboro | 920 ft280 m |
| Airport (ATL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.6 mi northwest of the city limits | 1,026 ft313 m |
| Average of all land | 890 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Clayton County, Georgia, United States
- Population
- 6,084 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.0 sq mi
- Density
- 2,032 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.5215° N, 84.3538° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Ocmulgee River → Altamaha River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) 1,026 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 30236
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Forest Park950 ft
- Lake City950 ft
- Lovejoy940 ft
- Bonanza900 ft
- Jonesboro900 ft
- Riverdale900 ft
- Morrow890 ft
- Fayetteville890 ft
- Irondale880 ft
- Conley880 ft
- Stockbridge800 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Georgia144th highest of 676
- Towns in Clayton County5th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pine Log Mountain2,338 ft
- Leggetts Hill (historical)1,060 ft
- Dabneys Hill1,040 ft
- Panola Mountain950 ft
- Jones Hill930 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.