Anderson County, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,530 ft 1,075 m2,840 ft 865 m2,490 ft 760 m1,800 ft 550 m1,100 ft 335 m750 ft 230 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
Anderson County averages about 1,310 ft (400 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 750 ft on the southwest side to 3,535 ft on Cross Mountain.
Average elevation
1,310 ft 400 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,535 ft 1,077 m
on Cross Mountain
Lowest
750 ft 230 m
on the southwest side
Anderson County spans about 2,780 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 | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Cross Mountain (NGS survey height) | 3,535 ft1,077 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 750 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
19 mi south to north through Oak Ridge.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 81,449 2024 est.
- Land area
- 337.2 sq mi + 7.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 242 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Valley and Ridge 53%, Appalachian Plateaus 47%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Campbell County1,610 ft
- Scott County1,540 ft
- Morgan County1,500 ft
- Anderson County1,310 ft
- Union County1,260 ft
- Knox County1,010 ft
- Roane County930 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Tennessee25th highest of 92
- Counties in the United States999th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Redoak Mountain3,380 ft
- Buffalo Mountain3,380 ft
- Stallion Mountain3,340 ft
- Patterson Mountain3,320 ft
- Pilot Mountain, Anderson County3,280 ft
All 7 towns in Anderson County by typical elevation
- Norris1,070 ft
- Andersonville1,020 ft
- Oak Ridge930 ft
- Briceville920 ft
- Clinton880 ft
- Rocky Top870 ft
- Oliver Springs820 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.
- 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, 680 ft at 36.0118° N, 84.1990° 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.