Giles County, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,160 ft 355 m1,010 ft 310 m940 ft 285 m790 ft 240 m640 ft 195 m560 ft 170 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Giles County averages about 820 ft (250 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 560 ft on the south side to 1,160 ft on the north side.
Average elevation
820 ft 250 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,160 ft 355 m
on the north side
Lowest
560 ft 170 m
on the south side
Giles County spans about 600 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 820 ft250 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the north side | 1,160 ft355 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 560 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
30 mi south to north through Pulaski.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 30,971 2024 est.
- Land area
- 610.9 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 51 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Lawrence County880 ft
- Lincoln County840 ft
- Giles County820 ft
- Marshall County820 ft
- Maury County740 ft
- Limestone County, AL700 ft
- Lauderdale County, AL650 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Tennessee51st highest of 92
- Counties in the United States1,762nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Apple Hill1,060 ft
- Chambliss Hill1,050 ft
- Round Hill, Giles County1,047 ft
- Bell Hill, Giles County1,020 ft
- Chapel Hill1,010 ft
All 7 towns in Giles County by typical elevation
- Ardmore900 ft
- Minor Hill870 ft
- Lynnville770 ft
- Frankewing700 ft
- Pulaski700 ft
- Elkton660 ft
- Prospect630 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, 510 ft at 35.1465° N, 87.0521° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.