Whitfield County, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,830 ft 560 m1,530 ft 465 m1,380 ft 420 m1,080 ft 330 m780 ft 235 m630 ft 190 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
Whitfield County averages about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 630 ft on the south side to 1,830 ft on Dug Mountain.
Average elevation
850 ft 260 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,830 ft 558 m
on Dug Mountain
Lowest
630 ft 190 m
on the south side
Whitfield County spans about 1,200 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Dug Mountain (NGS survey height) | 1,830 ft558 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 630 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
15 mi west to east through Dalton.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Georgia, United States
- Population
- 105,070 2024 est.
- Land area
- 290.4 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 362 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Murray County1,090 ft
- Walker County1,090 ft
- Hamilton County, TN990 ft
- Bradley County, TN860 ft
- Catoosa County850 ft
- Whitfield County850 ft
- Gordon County750 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Georgia34th highest of 151
- Counties in the United States1,715th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Dug Mountain1,830 ft
- Middle Mountain1,790 ft
- Chestnut Mountain, Whitfield County1,770 ft
- Rocky Face Mountain1,770 ft
- Blue Mountain, Whitfield County1,320 ft
All 4 towns in Whitfield County by typical elevation
- Cohutta890 ft
- Varnell880 ft
- Tunnel Hill860 ft
- Dalton770 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.
- Highest ground: the single highest 3DEP cell, 1,830 ft at 34.6504° N, 85.0507° W, has no federal (GNIS) summit name within 980 ft (300 m), so the high point shown is the highest of the 25 highest cells with a GNIS summit within 1,640 ft (500 m).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 610 ft at 34.8374° N, 84.9043° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.