Gahanna, OH Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,010 ft 310 m950 ft 290 m920 ft 280 m860 ft 265 m800 ft 245 m770 ft 235 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
Gahanna sits at about 840 ft (255 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
840 ft 255 m
most residents: 810–950 ft
Lowest
770 ft 235 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,010 ft 310 m
on the northeast side
Average
860 ft 265 m
all land inside city limits
Gahanna spans about 240 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 | 840 ft255 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 770 ft235 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gahanna | 800 ft245 m |
| Airport (CMH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.8 mi southwest of the city limits | 815 ft248 m |
| Average of all land | 860 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Franklin County, Ohio, United States
- Population
- 35,544 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.4 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,859 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0192° N, 82.8793° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Big Walnut Creek → Scioto River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- John Glenn Columbus International (CMH) 815 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 43054 43230
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- New Albany1,040 ft
- Jefferson Township1,000 ft
- Truro Township880 ft
- Clinton Township, Franklin County880 ft
- Minerva Park850 ft
- Blendon Township840 ft
- Mifflin Township840 ft
- Gahanna840 ft
- Huber Ridge840 ft
- Whitehall790 ft
- Bexley790 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Ohio1,637th highest of 2,572
- Towns in Franklin County25th highest of 46
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Beavers Hill1,260 ft
- Sugarloaf Hill1,170 ft
- Flowerpot Hill1,100 ft
- Spangler Hill810 ft
- Baker Hill800 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. All public domain.