Talking Rock, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,530 ft 465 m1,410 ft 430 m1,360 ft 415 m1,240 ft 380 m1,130 ft 345 m1,070 ft 325 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Talking Rock sits at about 1,150 ft (350 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,150 ft 350 m
most residents: 1,080–1,420 ft
Lowest
1,070 ft 325 m
near the middle
Highest
1,530 ft 465 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,280 ft 390 m
all land inside town limits
Talking Rock spans about 460 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 | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 1,530 ft465 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, near the middle | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Talking Rock | 1,090 ft330 m |
| Airport (JZP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.5 mi southeast of the town limits | 1,535 ft468 m |
| Average of all land | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Nearest peak Burnt Mountain, 6.4 mi east of the town limits | 3,280 ft1,000 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Pickens County, Georgia, United States
- Population
- 111 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi
- Density
- 54 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.5093° N, 84.5049° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Talking Rock Creek → Coosawattee River → Oostanaula River → Coosa River → Alabama River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Pickens County (JZP) 1,535 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 30175
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cherry Log1,860 ft
- Ellijay1,430 ft
- Jasper1,410 ft
- East Ellijay1,380 ft
- Nelson1,270 ft
- Talking Rock1,150 ft
- Waleska1,120 ft
- Ball Ground1,110 ft
- Canton1,010 ft
- Ranger760 ft
- Fairmount760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Georgia47th highest of 676
- Towns in Pickens Countylowest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Frog Mountain4,220 ft
- Cowpen Mountain4,151 ft
- Big Bald Mountain4,080 ft
- Burnt Mountain3,280 ft
- Pine Log Mountain2,338 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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.