Big Sandy, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
470 ft 145 m440 ft 135 m430 ft 130 m400 ft 120 m370 ft 115 m360 ft 110 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Big Sandy sits at about 400 ft (120 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
400 ft 120 m
most residents: 370–450 ft
Lowest
360 ft 110 m
on the west side
Highest
470 ft 145 m
on the southeast side
Average
400 ft 125 m
all land inside town limits
Big Sandy spans about 110 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 | 400 ft120 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 470 ft145 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 360 ft110 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Big Sandy | 370 ft115 m |
| Average of all land | 400 ft125 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Benton County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 497 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 791 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.2348° N, 88.0853° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 38221
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tennessee Ridge720 ft
- Henry540 ft
- Whitlock540 ft
- Buchanan520 ft
- Hollow Rock460 ft
- Paris460 ft
- Bruceton460 ft
- Camden450 ft
- New Johnsonville420 ft
- Big Sandy400 ft
- Eva390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee442nd highest of 504
- Towns in Benton County3rd highest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pilot Knob, Benton County670 ft
- High Place650 ft
- Bomar Hill630 ft
- Lathen Hill620 ft
- Bald Knob, Houston County580 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.