Clarksville, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
660 ft 200 m580 ft 180 m550 ft 165 m470 ft 145 m400 ft 120 m360 ft 110 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Clarksville sits at about 530 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
530 ft 160 m
most residents: 470–560 ft
Lowest
360 ft 110 m
on the west side
Highest
660 ft 200 m
on the northwest side
Average
500 ft 155 m
all land inside city limits
Clarksville spans about 300 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 | 530 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 660 ft200 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 360 ft110 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Clarksville | 480 ft145 m |
| Airport (CKV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 550 ft168 m |
| Average of all land | 500 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
11 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Montgomery County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 185,690 2024 est.
- Land area
- 100.1 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,854 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.5298° N, 87.3595° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Cumberland River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Outlaw Field (CKV) 550 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 37040 37042 37043 42223
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Slayden750 ft
- Cedar Hill670 ft
- Pembroke, KY580 ft
- Trenton, KY580 ft
- Adams560 ft
- Fort Campbell North, KY550 ft
- Oak Grove, KY550 ft
- Guthrie, KY550 ft
- LaFayette, KY540 ft
- Clarksville530 ft
- Cumberland City440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee360th highest of 504
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gallion Hill720 ft
- Frazier Hill670 ft
- Brigham Hill660 ft
- Whisky Hill640 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, 140 ft at 36.5490° N, 87.3635° 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. All public domain.