Powder Springs, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,030 ft 315 m990 ft 300 m970 ft 295 m940 ft 285 m900 ft 275 m890 ft 270 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
Powder Springs sits at about 940 ft (290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
940 ft 290 m
most residents: 920–990 ft
Lowest
890 ft 270 m
on the south side
Highest
1,030 ft 315 m
on the southwest side
Average
940 ft 290 m
all land inside city limits
Powder Springs 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 | 940 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 890 ft270 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Powder Springs | 950 ft290 m |
| Average of all land | 940 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Cobb County, Georgia, United States
- Population
- 19,632 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.2 sq mi
- Density
- 2,404 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.8595° N, 84.6838° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Chattahoochee River → Apalachicola River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 30127
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fair Oaks1,070 ft
- Hiram1,060 ft
- Marietta1,060 ft
- Douglasville1,050 ft
- Kennesaw1,040 ft
- Dallas1,030 ft
- Smyrna990 ft
- Mableton980 ft
- Powder Springs940 ft
- Lithia Springs940 ft
- Austell910 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Georgia115th highest of 676
- Towns in Cobb County7th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Burnt Mountain3,280 ft
- Pine Log Mountain2,338 ft
- Dugger Mountain2,130 ft
- Morton Hill2,070 ft
- Lost Mountain1,510 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.