Shannon, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
950 ft 290 m860 ft 265 m820 ft 250 m730 ft 220 m630 ft 195 m590 ft 180 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
Shannon sits at about 690 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
690 ft 210 m
most residents: 670–740 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the west side
Highest
950 ft 290 m
on the west side
Average
700 ft 215 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Shannon spans about 360 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 | 690 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 950 ft290 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 590 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shannon | 700 ft215 m |
| Airport (RMG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.8 mi west of the CDP boundary | 644 ft196 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Floyd County, Georgia, United States
- Population
- 1,919 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.0 sq mi
- Density
- 385 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.3368° N, 85.0713° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Coosa River → Alabama River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Richard B Russell Regional - J H Towers Field (RMG) 644 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 30161
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Adairsville740 ft
- Taylorsville740 ft
- Euharlee720 ft
- Kingston700 ft
- Shannon690 ft
- Plainville680 ft
- Lindale680 ft
- Calhoun670 ft
- Resaca660 ft
- Rome640 ft
- Berry College610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Georgia286th highest of 676
- Towns in Floyd Countyhighest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cowpen Mountain4,151 ft
- Big Bald Mountain4,080 ft
- Burnt Mountain3,280 ft
- Pine Log Mountain2,338 ft
- Dugger Mountain2,130 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.
- Shannon 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.