Burns, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
890 ft 270 m820 ft 250 m780 ft 240 m710 ft 215 m640 ft 195 m610 ft 185 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
Burns 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: 710–860 ft
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the east side
Highest
890 ft 270 m
on the west side
Average
770 ft 235 m
all land inside town limits
Burns spans about 280 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 the west side | 890 ft270 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 610 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Burns | 800 ft240 m |
| Airport (M02) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.2 mi northwest of the town limits | 892 ft272 m |
| Average of all land | 770 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Dickson County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 1,872 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.8 sq mi
- Density
- 494 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.0534° N, 87.3125° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Cumberland River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Dickson Municipal (M02) 892 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 37029 37055
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lyles850 ft
- Bon Aqua Junction850 ft
- Vanleer840 ft
- Fairview830 ft
- Dickson820 ft
- Wrigley810 ft
- Burns800 ft
- White Bluff790 ft
- Charlotte730 ft
- Kingston Springs570 ft
- Pegram560 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee248th highest of 504
- Towns in Dickson County3rd highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brown Hill, Hickman County870 ft
- Center Avenue Hill820 ft
- Tanbark Hill820 ft
- Brown Hill, Dickson County770 ft
- Cedar Hill, Dickson County730 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. All public domain.