Cocke County, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,350 ft 1,935 m5,000 ft 1,525 m4,330 ft 1,320 m2,980 ft 910 m1,640 ft 500 m960 ft 295 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
Cocke County averages about 1,750 ft (535 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 960 ft on the northwest side to 6,350 ft on Old Black.
Average elevation
1,750 ft 535 m
all land inside the county
Highest
6,350 ft 1,935 m
on Old Black
Lowest
960 ft 295 m
on the northwest side
Cocke County spans about 5,390 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 | 1,750 ft535 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Old Black (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 6,350 ft1,935 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 960 ft295 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
31 mi south to north through Newport.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 37,596 2024 est.
- Land area
- 436.1 sq mi + 6.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 86 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Blue Ridge 61%, Valley and Ridge 39%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Haywood County, NC3,590 ft
- Madison County, NC2,680 ft
- Sevier County1,980 ft
- Cocke County1,750 ft
- Greene County1,540 ft
- Hamblen County1,260 ft
- Jefferson County1,170 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Tennessee6th highest of 92
- Counties in the United States706th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Inadu Knob6,090 ft
- Camel Hump Mountain5,810 ft
- Snowbird Mountain4,250 ft
- English Mountain3,630 ft
- Stone Mountain3,604 ft
All 3 towns in Cocke County by typical elevation
- Cosby1,630 ft
- Parrottsville1,220 ft
- Newport1,180 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.