Monroe County, GA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
780 ft 240 m660 ft 200 m610 ft 185 m490 ft 150 m370 ft 110 m310 ft 95 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
Monroe County averages about 550 ft (165 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 310 ft on the east side to 780 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
550 ft 165 m
all land inside the county
Highest
780 ft 240 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
310 ft 95 m
on the east side
Monroe County spans about 470 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 | 550 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 780 ft240 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 310 ft95 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
18 mi west to east through Forsyth.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Georgia, United States
- Population
- 31,437 2024 est.
- Land area
- 396.1 sq mi + 2.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 79 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
- Lamar County740 ft
- Upson County660 ft
- Butts County630 ft
- Jasper County570 ft
- Monroe County550 ft
- Jones County490 ft
- Crawford County480 ft
- Bibb County390 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Georgia63rd highest of 151
- Counties in the United States2,270th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Providence Hill570 ft
All 5 towns in Monroe County by typical elevation
- Culloden670 ft
- Forsyth650 ft
- Smarr580 ft
- Bolingbroke560 ft
- Juliette430 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. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, 39 ft at 32.9929° N, 83.7401° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.