White County, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,400 ft 1,340 m3,580 ft 1,090 m3,170 ft 965 m2,340 ft 715 m1,520 ft 465 m1,110 ft 335 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
White County averages about 1,780 ft (545 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,110 ft on the southeast side to 4,400 ft on Tray Mountain.
Average elevation
1,780 ft 545 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,400 ft 1,340 m
on Tray Mountain
Lowest
1,110 ft 335 m
on the southeast side
White County spans about 3,290 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 | 1,780 ft545 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Tray Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 4,400 ft1,340 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,110 ft335 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
20 mi south to north through Cleveland.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Georgia, United States
- Population
- 29,668 2024 est.
- Land area
- 240.8 sq mi + 1.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 123 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Piedmont 65%, Blue Ridge 35%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Towns County2,570 ft
- Union County2,370 ft
- White County1,780 ft
- Lumpkin County1,680 ft
- Habersham County1,540 ft
- Hall County1,140 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Georgia6th highest of 151
- Counties in the United States696th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Tray Mountain4,400 ft
- Rocky Mountain, White County4,010 ft
- Wildcat Mountain3,770 ft
- Strawberry Top3,700 ft
- Yonah Mountain3,160 ft
All 4 towns in White County by typical elevation
- Yonah1,600 ft
- Cleveland1,560 ft
- Helen1,490 ft
- Sautee-Nacoochee1,440 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.