Chattanooga, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,080 ft 635 m1,710 ft 520 m1,530 ft 465 m1,160 ft 355 m800 ft 245 m620 ft 190 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Chattanooga sits at about 720 ft (220 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
720 ft 220 m
most residents: 670–830 ft
Lowest
620 ft 190 m
on the northeast side
Highest
2,080 ft 635 m
on the southwest side
Average
780 ft 240 m
all land inside city limits
Chattanooga spans about 1,460 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 | 720 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 2,080 ft635 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 620 ft190 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Chattanooga | 680 ft205 m |
| Airport (CHA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 683 ft208 m |
| Average of all land | 780 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
14 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 191,496 2024 est.
- Land area
- 142.4 sq mi + 7.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,345 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.0456° N, 85.3097° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lovell Field (CHA) 683 ft
- ZIP codes 20
- 37341 37343 37351 37363 37402 37403 37404 37405 37406 37407 37408 37409 37410 37411 37412 37415 37416 37419 37421 37450
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lookout Mountain1,970 ft
- Signal Mountain1,810 ft
- Lookout Mountain, GA1,740 ft
- Fairview, GA890 ft
- Ridgeside830 ft
- Red Bank810 ft
- Lakeview, GA760 ft
- East Ridge730 ft
- Fort Oglethorpe, GA720 ft
- Chattanooga720 ft
- Rossville, GA690 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee280th highest of 504
- Towns in Hamilton Countylowest of 19
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 city 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 city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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, 450 ft at 35.0635° N, 85.2015° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.