Select Cities by Elevation Gap between Lowest and Highest Points

[jmecklenborg]

^Chattanooga is missing, which runs away with the prize for the eastern United States. The lowest point is 620 and the highest is 2,400. More importantly, the city is one of the few with real neighborhoods built atop very high hills, tunnels bored through hillsides, etc.

Atlanta *could* have scored very high in this realm if the city had been founded closer to Stone Mountain, which is about 800 feet high. It would have been amazing if the city neighborhoods had grown to surround it. Instead, it's an anomaly that comes into view while circling 285.