Chester County, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
730 ft 225 m640 ft 195 m600 ft 180 m510 ft 155 m420 ft 125 m370 ft 115 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
Chester County averages about 480 ft (145 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 370 ft on the northwest side to 730 ft on Sand Mountain.
Average elevation
480 ft 145 m
all land inside the county
Highest
730 ft 225 m
on Sand Mountain
Lowest
370 ft 115 m
on the northwest side
Chester County spans about 360 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 | 480 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Sand Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 730 ft225 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 370 ft115 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Henderson.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 17,876 2024 est.
- Land area
- 285.7 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 63 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Hardin County510 ft
- Henderson County490 ft
- McNairy County480 ft
- Chester County480 ft
- Hardeman County460 ft
- Madison County440 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Tennessee75th highest of 92
- Counties in the United States2,352nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Sand Mountain, Chester County730 ft
- Laurel Hill650 ft
- Rose Hill640 ft
- Crown Point Hill595 ft
- Halloway Hill590 ft
All 5 towns in Chester County by typical elevation
- Jacks Creek490 ft
- Enville470 ft
- Henderson450 ft
- Silerton partly440 ft
- Milledgeville partly420 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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.