Benton, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m960 ft 295 m920 ft 280 m830 ft 255 m740 ft 225 m700 ft 215 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Benton sits at about 800 ft (245 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
800 ft 245 m
most residents: 750–930 ft
Lowest
700 ft 215 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
on Little Mountain
Average
800 ft 245 m
all land inside town limits
Benton spans about 350 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 | 800 ft245 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on Little Mountain | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 700 ft215 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Benton | 740 ft225 m |
| Airport (RZR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.5 mi west of the town limits | 866 ft264 m |
| Average of all land | 800 ft245 m |
| Nearest peak Oswald Dome, 4.1 mi east of the town limits (NGS survey) | 3,022 ft921 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Polk County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 1,458 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.0 sq mi
- Density
- 481 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.1742° N, 84.6535° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Hiwassee River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Cleveland Regional Jetport (RZR) 866 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 37307
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- South Cleveland970 ft
- East Cleveland950 ft
- Cleveland860 ft
- Wildwood Lake860 ft
- Etowah850 ft
- Ocoee800 ft
- Conasauga800 ft
- Benton800 ft
- Delano800 ft
- Charleston750 ft
- Calhoun740 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee245th highest of 504
- Towns in Polk County6th highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Frog Mountain4,220 ft
- Cowpen Mountain4,151 ft
- Little Frog Mountain3,320 ft
- Oswald Dome3,022 ft
- Chestnut Mountain2,610 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.