Sandy Springs, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,140 ft 350 m1,050 ft 320 m1,000 ft 305 m910 ft 275 m810 ft 250 m770 ft 235 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Sandy Springs sits at about 990 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
990 ft 300 m
most residents: 910–1,060 ft
Lowest
770 ft 235 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,140 ft 350 m
on the northeast side
Average
970 ft 295 m
all land inside city limits
Sandy Springs spans about 370 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 | 990 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,140 ft350 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 770 ft235 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sandy Springs | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Airport (PDK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.7 mi southeast of the city limits | 998 ft304 m |
| Average of all land | 970 ft295 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Fulton County, Georgia, United States
- Population
- 105,505 2024 est.
- Land area
- 37.7 sq mi + 0.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,798 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.9243° N, 84.3785° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Chattahoochee River → Apalachicola River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Dekalb-Peachtree (PDK) 998 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 30327 30328 30339 30342 30350
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Roswell1,030 ft
- Dunwoody1,020 ft
- Norcross1,000 ft
- Doraville1,000 ft
- Smyrna990 ft
- Sandy Springs990 ft
- Chamblee970 ft
- Peachtree Corners960 ft
- North Druid Hills940 ft
- Brookhaven940 ft
- Vinings930 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Georgia96th highest of 676
- Towns in Fulton County7th highest of 15
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blood Mountain4,459 ft
- Big Bald Mountain4,080 ft
- Burnt Mountain3,280 ft
- Yonah Mountain3,160 ft
- Pine Log Mountain2,338 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.