Walker County, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,370 ft 720 m1,940 ft 590 m1,720 ft 525 m1,290 ft 395 m860 ft 265 m650 ft 195 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
Walker County averages about 1,090 ft (330 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 650 ft on the north side to 2,370 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
1,090 ft 330 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,370 ft 720 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
650 ft 195 m
on the north side
Walker County spans about 1,720 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 | 1,090 ft330 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 2,370 ft720 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 650 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
25 mi west to east through LaFayette.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Georgia, United States
- Population
- 69,340 2024 est.
- Land area
- 446.3 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 155 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Appalachian Plateaus 62%, Valley and Ridge 39%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Dade County1,290 ft
- DeKalb County, AL1,220 ft
- Walker County1,090 ft
- Hamilton County, TN990 ft
- Chattooga County880 ft
- Catoosa County850 ft
- Whitfield County850 ft
- Gordon County750 ft
- Floyd County740 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Georgia16th highest of 151
- Counties in the United States1,265th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Pigeon Mountain, Walker County2,329 ft
- Round Top, Walker County2,320 ft
- Gulf Mountain, Walker County2,204 ft
- Johns Mountain1,882 ft
- Mill Creek Mountain1,800 ft
All 9 towns in Walker County by typical elevation
- Lookout Mountain1,740 ft
- Fairview890 ft
- Rock Spring860 ft
- LaFayette830 ft
- Chattanooga Valley820 ft
- Chickamauga760 ft
- Lakeview partly760 ft
- Fort Oglethorpe partly720 ft
- Rossville690 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. 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.