Cottontown, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
910 ft 280 m820 ft 250 m780 ft 235 m690 ft 210 m600 ft 180 m550 ft 170 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
Cottontown sits at about 640 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
640 ft 195 m
most residents: 600–770 ft
Lowest
550 ft 170 m
on the southwest side
Highest
910 ft 280 m
on O'Ryan Knob
Average
650 ft 195 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Cottontown spans about 360 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 | 640 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on O'Ryan Knob | 910 ft280 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 550 ft170 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cottontown | 570 ft175 m |
| Airport (XNX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.3 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 583 ft178 m |
| Average of all land | 650 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Sumner County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 397 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.5 sq mi
- Density
- 113 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.4514° N, 86.5380° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Cumberland River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Music City Exec (XNX) 583 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 37048 37066
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Graball940 ft
- New Deal880 ft
- Walnut Grove860 ft
- White House840 ft
- Portland800 ft
- Cross Plains720 ft
- Millersville690 ft
- Cottontown640 ft
- Shackle Island600 ft
- Gallatin530 ft
- Hendersonville500 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee314th highest of 504
- Towns in Sumner County12th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pitt Hill910 ft
- O'Ryan Knob910 ft
- Stone Hill910 ft
- Kirk Hill900 ft
- Scobey Hill700 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.
- Cottontown 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. All public domain.