Dowelltown, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,010 ft 305 m890 ft 270 m830 ft 255 m720 ft 220 m600 ft 185 m550 ft 165 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Dowelltown sits at about 590 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
590 ft 180 m
most residents: 570–650 ft
Lowest
550 ft 165 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,010 ft 305 m
on the southeast side
Average
640 ft 195 m
all land inside town limits
Dowelltown spans about 460 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 | 590 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 1,010 ft305 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 550 ft165 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dowelltown | 580 ft175 m |
| Airport (0A3) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.8 mi east of the town limits | 1,084 ft330 m |
| Average of all land | 640 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in DeKalb County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 367 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 488 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.0151° N, 85.9436° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Cumberland River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Smithville Municipal (0A3) 1,084 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 37059
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Smithville1,060 ft
- Greenvale820 ft
- Statesville780 ft
- Woodbury740 ft
- Alexandria700 ft
- Auburntown690 ft
- Watertown680 ft
- Liberty620 ft
- Gordonsville610 ft
- Hickman600 ft
- Dowelltown590 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee332nd highest of 504
- Towns in DeKalb Countylowest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hinch Mountain3,041 ft
- Round Top Knob1,210 ft
- Hawkins Hill1,190 ft
- Hearn Hill1,070 ft
- Round Hill, DeKalb County1,070 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.