Blount County, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,500 ft 1,675 m4,330 ft 1,320 m3,740 ft 1,140 m2,570 ft 785 m1,390 ft 425 m810 ft 245 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
Blount County averages about 1,420 ft (435 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 810 ft on the north side to 5,500 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
1,420 ft 435 m
all land inside the county
Highest
5,500 ft 1,675 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
810 ft 245 m
on the north side
Blount County spans about 4,690 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 | 1,420 ft435 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 5,500 ft1,675 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 810 ft245 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
25 mi south to north through Maryville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 142,211 2024 est.
- Land area
- 558.8 sq mi + 7.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 254 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Blue Ridge 51%, Valley and Ridge 49%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Swain County, NC3,240 ft
- Graham County, NC2,840 ft
- Sevier County1,980 ft
- Monroe County1,460 ft
- Blount County1,420 ft
- Knox County1,010 ft
- Loudon County930 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Tennessee22nd highest of 92
- Counties in the United States906th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Brier Knob5,190 ft
- Devils Tater Patch4,770 ft
- Little Bald, Blount County4,750 ft
- Rich Mountain3,701 ft
- Morton Bluff2,770 ft
All 10 towns in Blount County by typical elevation
- Townsend1,110 ft
- Seymour partly1,070 ft
- Maryville990 ft
- Walland950 ft
- Wildwood920 ft
- Louisville890 ft
- Eagleton Village890 ft
- Alcoa890 ft
- Friendsville880 ft
- Rockford870 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. 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, 670 ft at 35.7321° N, 83.9535° 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.