Sparta, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
600 ft 185 m570 ft 175 m550 ft 170 m520 ft 155 m480 ft 145 m470 ft 140 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Sparta sits at about 550 ft (170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
550 ft 170 m
most residents: 500–570 ft
Lowest
470 ft 140 m
on the west side
Highest
600 ft 185 m
on the north side
Average
540 ft 165 m
all land inside city limits
Sparta spans about 130 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 | 550 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 600 ft185 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 470 ft140 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sparta | 560 ft170 m |
| Average of all land | 540 ft165 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Hancock County, Georgia, United States
- Population
- 1,316 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.8 sq mi
- Density
- 727 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.2757° N, 82.9763° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Buffalo Creek → Oconee River → Altamaha River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 31087
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Siloam700 ft
- White Plains640 ft
- Norwood600 ft
- Crawfordville600 ft
- Sparta550 ft
- Mitchell520 ft
- Warrenton520 ft
- Warthen470 ft
- Crooked Creek360 ft
- Milledgeville330 ft
- Deepstep310 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Georgia339th highest of 676
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stony Hill560 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. All public domain.