Snellville, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,200 ft 365 m1,120 ft 340 m1,070 ft 325 m990 ft 305 m910 ft 280 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Snellville 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: 940–1,070 ft
Lowest
870 ft 265 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,200 ft 365 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,000 ft 305 m
all land inside city limits
Snellville spans about 330 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 southwest side | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 870 ft265 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Snellville | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Airport (LZU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.3 mi north of the city limits | 1,062 ft324 m |
| Average of all land | 1,000 ft305 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States
- Population
- 22,336 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.5 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,128 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.8573° N, 84.0199° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Yellow River → Ocmulgee River → Altamaha River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Gwinnett County/Briscoe Field (LZU) 1,062 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 30017 30052 30078
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Grayson1,060 ft
- Tucker1,040 ft
- Dacula1,030 ft
- Lawrenceville1,020 ft
- Snellville990 ft
- Mountain Park990 ft
- Stone Mountain980 ft
- Loganville950 ft
- Lithonia940 ft
- Lilburn930 ft
- Lakeview Estates770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Georgia92nd highest of 676
- Towns in Gwinnett County11th highest of 14
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.