North Decatur, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,060 ft 325 m1,010 ft 310 m990 ft 300 m940 ft 285 m900 ft 275 m870 ft 265 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
North Decatur sits at about 980 ft (295 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
980 ft 295 m
most residents: 930–1,010 ft
Lowest
870 ft 265 m
on the north side
Highest
1,060 ft 325 m
on the northeast side
Average
960 ft 295 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
North Decatur spans about 190 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 | 980 ft295 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 1,060 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 870 ft265 m |
| Town center USGS map point for North Decatur | 990 ft305 m |
| Airport (ATL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 1,026 ft313 m |
| Average of all land | 960 ft295 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States
- Population
- 18,511 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.9 sq mi
- Density
- 3,770 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.7904° N, 84.3060° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Chattahoochee River → Apalachicola River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) 1,026 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 30030 30033
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Avondale Estates1,030 ft
- Decatur1,010 ft
- Clarkston990 ft
- Scottdale980 ft
- North Decatur980 ft
- Belvedere Park970 ft
- Atlanta940 ft
- North Druid Hills940 ft
- Brookhaven940 ft
- Druid Hills930 ft
- Candler-McAfee930 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Georgia103rd highest of 676
- Towns in DeKalb County9th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Burnt Mountain3,280 ft
- Pine Log Mountain2,338 ft
- Leggetts Hill (historical)1,060 ft
- Dabneys Hill1,040 ft
- Druid Hill1,020 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- North Decatur is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.