Upson County, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,270 ft 390 m1,040 ft 315 m920 ft 280 m690 ft 210 m460 ft 140 m340 ft 105 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Upson County averages about 660 ft (200 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 340 ft on the southeast side to 1,270 ft on Dorster Mountain.
Average elevation
660 ft 200 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,270 ft 390 m
on Dorster Mountain
Lowest
340 ft 105 m
on the southeast side
Upson County spans about 930 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 660 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Dorster Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 1,270 ft390 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 340 ft105 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
22 mi west to east through Thomaston.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Georgia, United States
- Population
- 28,358 2024 est.
- Land area
- 323.5 sq mi + 4.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 88 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Meriwether County820 ft
- Pike County810 ft
- Lamar County740 ft
- Upson County660 ft
- Talbot County630 ft
- Monroe County550 ft
- Taylor County510 ft
- Crawford County480 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Georgia54th highest of 151
- Counties in the United States2,108th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Dorster Mountain1,270 ft
- Bull Trail Mountain1,260 ft
- Salter Mountain1,210 ft
- Spring Mountain1,190 ft
- The Top1,150 ft
All 7 towns in Upson County by typical elevation
- The Rock780 ft
- Yatesville740 ft
- Sunset Village740 ft
- Hannahs Mill740 ft
- Thomaston730 ft
- Lincoln Park700 ft
- Salem460 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.