Waleska, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,240 ft 380 m1,180 ft 360 m1,140 ft 350 m1,070 ft 330 m1,010 ft 305 m970 ft 295 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
Waleska sits at about 1,120 ft (340 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,120 ft 340 m
most residents: 1,110–1,120 ft
Lowest
970 ft 295 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,240 ft 380 m
on the east side
Average
1,100 ft 335 m
all land inside city limits
Waleska spans about 270 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 | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,240 ft380 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 970 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Waleska | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Airport (CNI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.3 mi east of the city limits | 1,220 ft372 m |
| Average of all land | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Nearest peak Pine Log Mountain, 4.2 mi west of the city limits (NGS survey) | 2,338 ft713 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Cherokee County, Georgia, United States
- Population
- 978 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Density
- 573 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.3165° N, 84.5522° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Etowah River → Coosa River → Alabama River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Cherokee County Regional (CNI) 1,220 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 30183
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Jasper1,410 ft
- Nelson1,270 ft
- Talking Rock1,150 ft
- Waleska1,120 ft
- Ball Ground1,110 ft
- Holly Springs1,050 ft
- Canton1,010 ft
- Woodstock950 ft
- White860 ft
- Ranger760 ft
- Fairmount760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Georgia53rd highest of 676
- Towns in Cherokee County2nd highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blood Mountain4,459 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 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.