Dickson, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
940 ft 285 m870 ft 265 m830 ft 255 m760 ft 230 m690 ft 210 m660 ft 200 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
Dickson sits at about 820 ft (250 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
820 ft 250 m
most residents: 750–860 ft
Lowest
660 ft 200 m
on the east side
Highest
940 ft 285 m
on the northwest side
Average
820 ft 250 m
all land inside city limits
Dickson spans about 280 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 | 820 ft250 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 940 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 660 ft200 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dickson | 810 ft245 m |
| Airport (M02) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.7 mi northwest of the city limits | 892 ft272 m |
| Average of all land | 820 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Dickson County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 16,878 2024 est.
- Land area
- 20.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 820 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.0770° N, 87.3878° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Dickson Municipal (M02) 892 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 37029 37055
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lyles850 ft
- Bon Aqua Junction850 ft
- Vanleer840 ft
- McEwen830 ft
- Dickson820 ft
- Wrigley810 ft
- Burns800 ft
- White Bluff790 ft
- Slayden750 ft
- Charlotte730 ft
- Kingston Springs570 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee235th highest of 504
- Towns in Dickson County2nd highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brown Hill, Hickman County870 ft
- Center Avenue Hill820 ft
- Tanbark Hill820 ft
- Brown Hill, Dickson County770 ft
- Cedar Hill, Dickson County730 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.