Collegedale, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,390 ft 425 m1,230 ft 375 m1,140 ft 350 m980 ft 300 m820 ft 250 m740 ft 225 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Collegedale sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 810–970 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,390 ft 425 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
890 ft 270 m
all land inside city limits
Collegedale spans about 650 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,390 ft425 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 740 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Collegedale | 790 ft240 m |
| Airport (CHA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.4 mi west of the city limits | 683 ft208 m |
| Average of all land | 890 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 11,510 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.5 sq mi
- Density
- 922 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.0531° N, 85.0502° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lovell Field (CHA) 683 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 37302 37315 37353 37363
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- South Cleveland970 ft
- Apison930 ft
- Cohutta, GA890 ft
- McDonald860 ft
- Collegedale850 ft
- Ridgeside830 ft
- Ooltewah820 ft
- Ringgold, GA790 ft
- Harrison790 ft
- Indian Springs, GA770 ft
- East Ridge730 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee219th highest of 504
- Towns in Hamilton County8th highest 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).
- 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.