Athens, OH Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,020 ft 310 m920 ft 280 m870 ft 265 m760 ft 235 m660 ft 200 m610 ft 185 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Athens sits at about 670 ft (205 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

670 ft 205 m

most residents: 630–780 ft

Lowest

610 ft 185 m

on the east side

Highest

1,020 ft 310 m

on the south side

Average

740 ft 225 m

all land inside city limits

Athens spans about 410 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	670 ft205 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side	1,020 ft310 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side	610 ft185 m
Town center USGS map point for Athens	720 ft220 m
Average of all land	740 ft225 m

Elevation profile, south to north

4.1 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in Athens County, Ohio, United States
Population: 24,824 2024 est.
Land area: 9.9 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
Density: 2,496 per sq mi
Coordinates: 39.3292° N, 82.1013° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Appalachian Plateaus
Drains to: Hocking River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 45701

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Ohio2,340th highest of 2,572
Towns in Athens County25th highest of 29

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Bloemer Berg1,000 ft
Riley Hill980 ft
Signal Hill960 ft
Chandlers Hill920 ft
Stage Mound Hill850 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.