Columbia, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
960 ft 295 m860 ft 260 m800 ft 245 m700 ft 215 m590 ft 180 m540 ft 165 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
Columbia sits at about 670 ft (205 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
670 ft 205 m
most residents: 620–730 ft
Lowest
540 ft 165 m
on the northwest side
Highest
960 ft 295 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
670 ft 205 m
all land inside city limits
Columbia spans about 420 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 | 670 ft205 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 960 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 540 ft165 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Columbia | 640 ft195 m |
| Airport (MRC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.6 mi southwest of the city limits | 681 ft208 m |
| Average of all land | 670 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Maury County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 48,812 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.5 sq mi
- Density
- 1,337 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.6151° N, 87.0353° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Duck River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Maury County Regional (MRC) 681 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 38401
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Summertown990 ft
- Cornersville900 ft
- Thompson's Station810 ft
- Eagleville780 ft
- Lewisburg770 ft
- Lynnville770 ft
- Spring Hill750 ft
- Chapel Hill700 ft
- Franklin690 ft
- Columbia670 ft
- Mount Pleasant670 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee305th highest of 504
- Towns in Maury Countyhighest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Golston Hill940 ft
- Perkins Hill900 ft
- The Knob840 ft
- Rainey Hill820 ft
- Second Knob820 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. All public domain.