Etowah, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
990 ft 300 m940 ft 285 m920 ft 280 m870 ft 265 m820 ft 250 m800 ft 245 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Etowah sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 830–950 ft
Lowest
800 ft 240 m
on the south side
Highest
990 ft 300 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
870 ft 265 m
all land inside city limits
Etowah spans about 190 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside | 990 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 800 ft240 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Etowah | 810 ft245 m |
| Airport (MMI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.5 mi north of the city limits | 874 ft266 m |
| Average of all land | 870 ft265 m |
| Nearest peak Chestnut Mountain, 4.7 mi south of the city limits | 2,610 ft795 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in McMinn County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 3,742 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.8 sq mi
- Density
- 1,324 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.3234° N, 84.5249° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Hiwassee River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Mcminn County (MMI) 874 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 37331
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Coker Creek1,640 ft
- Niota1,010 ft
- Athens940 ft
- Tellico Plains930 ft
- Etowah850 ft
- Englewood850 ft
- Riceville850 ft
- Benton800 ft
- Delano800 ft
- Charleston750 ft
- Calhoun740 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee214th highest of 504
- Towns in McMinn County3rd highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Frog Mountain4,220 ft
- Pack Mountain3,450 ft
- Little Frog Mountain3,320 ft
- Oswald Dome3,022 ft
- Chestnut Mountain2,610 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).
- 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, 790 ft at 35.3135° N, 84.5296° 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.
- 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.