McRae-Helena, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
290 ft 90 m260 ft 80 m240 ft 75 m210 ft 65 m170 ft 50 m150 ft 45 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
McRae-Helena sits at about 220 ft (65 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
220 ft 65 m
most residents: 200–250 ft
Lowest
150 ft 45 m
on the north side
Highest
290 ft 90 m
on the northwest side
Average
210 ft 65 m
all land inside city limits
McRae-Helena 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 | 220 ft65 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 290 ft90 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 150 ft45 m |
| Airport (MQW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.9 mi northeast of the city limits | 202 ft62 m |
| Average of all land | 210 ft65 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.2 mi south to north through the middle of McRae-Helena.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Telfair County, Georgia, United States
- Population
- 5,186 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.4 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 806 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.0645° N, 82.8960° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Altamaha River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Telfair-Wheeler (MQW) 202 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 31037 31055
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Eastman350 ft
- Milan300 ft
- Chauncey260 ft
- Rhine240 ft
- Alamo230 ft
- McRae-Helena220 ft
- Jacksonville210 ft
- Glenwood200 ft
- Mount Vernon200 ft
- Scotland170 ft
- Lumber City140 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Georgia538th highest of 676
- Towns in Telfair Countyhighest of 4
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. All public domain.