Lincoln County, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
870 ft 265 m730 ft 225 m660 ft 205 m530 ft 160 m390 ft 120 m320 ft 100 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
Lincoln County averages about 420 ft (125 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 320 ft on the southeast side to 870 ft on Graves Mountain.
Average elevation
420 ft 125 m
all land inside the county
Highest
870 ft 265 m
on Graves Mountain
Lowest
320 ft 100 m
on the southeast side
Lincoln County spans about 550 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 | 420 ft125 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Graves Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 870 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 320 ft100 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
16 mi west to east through Lincolnton.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Georgia, United States
- Population
- 8,049 2024 est.
- Land area
- 210.4 sq mi + 46.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 38 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Elbert County560 ft
- Wilkes County500 ft
- McDuffie County450 ft
- Lincoln County420 ft
- McCormick County, SC420 ft
- Columbia County370 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Georgia77th highest of 151
- Counties in the United States2,447th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Graves Mountain870 ft
The one town in Lincoln County
- Lincolnton470 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.