McCaysville, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,800 ft 550 m1,710 ft 520 m1,670 ft 510 m1,580 ft 480 m1,490 ft 455 m1,450 ft 440 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
McCaysville sits at about 1,620 ft (495 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,620 ft 495 m
most residents: 1,480–1,680 ft
Lowest
1,450 ft 440 m
near the middle
Highest
1,800 ft 550 m
on the south side
Average
1,580 ft 485 m
all land inside city limits
McCaysville spans about 350 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 | 1,620 ft495 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,800 ft550 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 1,450 ft440 m |
| Town center USGS map point for McCaysville | 1,460 ft445 m |
| Airport (1A3) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.0 mi northeast of the city limits | 1,789 ft545 m |
| Average of all land | 1,580 ft485 m |
| Nearest peak Little Frog Mountain, 7.6 mi north of the city limits | 3,320 ft1,010 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Fannin County, Georgia, United States
- Population
- 1,165 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Density
- 774 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.9862° N, 84.3713° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Ocoee River → Hiwassee River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Martin Campbell Field (1A3) 1,789 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 30555
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cherry Log1,860 ft
- Morganton1,770 ft
- Epworth1,770 ft
- Blue Ridge1,740 ft
- Ducktown, TN1,700 ft
- Mineral Bluff1,660 ft
- Coker Creek, TN1,640 ft
- Murphy, NC1,630 ft
- McCaysville1,620 ft
- Farner, TN1,600 ft
- Copperhill, TN1,550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Georgia18th highest of 676
- Towns in Fannin Countylowest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Frog Mountain4,220 ft
- Cowpen Mountain4,151 ft
- Big Bald Mountain4,080 ft
- Little Frog Mountain3,320 ft
- Oswald Dome3,022 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.