Cosby, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,460 ft 750 m2,170 ft 660 m2,030 ft 620 m1,750 ft 530 m1,460 ft 445 m1,320 ft 400 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Cosby sits at about 1,630 ft (500 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,630 ft 500 m
most residents: 1,350–1,860 ft
Lowest
1,320 ft 400 m
on the north side
Highest
2,460 ft 750 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,660 ft 505 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Cosby spans about 1,140 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 | 1,630 ft500 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 2,460 ft750 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 1,320 ft400 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cosby | 1,350 ft410 m |
| Average of all land | 1,660 ft505 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Guyot, 4.5 mi south of the CDP boundary | 6,620 ft2,015 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Cocke County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 807 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.5 sq mi
- Density
- 146 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.8173° N, 83.2468° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 37722
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gatlinburg1,690 ft
- Cosby1,630 ft
- Pittman Center1,480 ft
- Fairgarden1,230 ft
- Parrottsville1,220 ft
- Dandridge1,190 ft
- Newport1,180 ft
- White Pine1,130 ft
- Pigeon Forge1,060 ft
- Baneberry1,040 ft
- Sevierville970 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee50th highest of 504
- Towns in Cocke Countyhighest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Guyot6,620 ft
- Snowbird Mountain4,250 ft
- English Mountain3,630 ft
- Stone Mountain3,604 ft
- Webb Mountain3,090 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).
- 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, 1,320 ft at 35.8235° N, 83.2463° 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.
- Cosby 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.