Gainesboro, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
960 ft 295 m850 ft 260 m790 ft 240 m670 ft 205 m560 ft 170 m500 ft 155 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Gainesboro sits at about 570 ft (175 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
570 ft 175 m
most residents: 520–710 ft
Lowest
500 ft 155 m
on the north side
Highest
960 ft 295 m
on the northeast side
Average
600 ft 185 m
all land inside town limits
Gainesboro 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 | 570 ft175 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 960 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 500 ft155 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gainesboro | 570 ft175 m |
| Airport (1A7) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.8 mi north of the town limits | 517 ft158 m |
| Average of all land | 600 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Jackson County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 961 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 617 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.3556° N, 85.6589° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Cumberland River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Jackson County (1A7) 517 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 38562
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cookeville1,110 ft
- Algood1,110 ft
- Hilham1,050 ft
- Baxter1,040 ft
- Livingston1,040 ft
- Dodson Branch940 ft
- Red Boiling Springs870 ft
- Gainesboro570 ft
- South Carthage560 ft
- Celina550 ft
- Carthage540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee336th highest of 504
- Towns in Jackson Countylowest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hinch Mountain3,041 ft
- Blue Ash Cut Hill990 ft
- Schelley Knob990 ft
- Columbus Hill960 ft
- Ray Bluff Knob920 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.