Colonial Heights, TN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,780 ft 545 m1,640 ft 500 m1,570 ft 480 m1,430 ft 435 m1,290 ft 395 m1,220 ft 375 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
Area: Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Colonial Heights sits at about 1,430 ft (435 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,430 ft 435 m

most residents: 1,360–1,510 ft

Lowest

1,220 ft 375 m

on the northwest side

Highest

1,780 ft 545 m

on the southwest side

Average

1,440 ft 440 m

all land inside the CDP boundary

Colonial Heights spans about 560 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	1,430 ft435 m
Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side	1,780 ft545 m
Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side	1,220 ft375 m
Airport (TRI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.9 mi east of the CDP boundary	1,519 ft463 m
Average of all land	1,440 ft440 m

Elevation profile, south to north

0.9 mi south to north through the middle of Colonial Heights.

Topographic Map

Location: Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Sullivan County, Tennessee, United States
Population: 3,055 2020 Census
Land area: 3.8 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
Density: 801 per sq mi
Coordinates: 36.4866° N, 82.5030° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Valley and Ridge
Drains to: Holston River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: Tri-Cities (TRI) 1,519 ft
ZIP codes 1: 37663

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Gray1,530 ft
Orebank1,530 ft
Fall Branch1,530 ft
Oak Grove1,510 ft
Bloomingdale1,460 ft
Spurgeon1,450 ft
Colonial Heights1,430 ft
Mount Carmel1,390 ft
Weber City, VA1,370 ft
Kingsport1,330 ft
Sullivan Gardens1,320 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Tennessee74th highest of 504
Towns in Sullivan County7th highest of 9

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Unaka Mountain5,170 ft
Coldspring Mountain4,852 ft
High Knob4,180 ft
Pinnacle Mountain3,520 ft
Chimneytop Mountain3,114 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
Colonial Heights is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.