Grainger County, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,520 ft 770 m2,100 ft 640 m1,900 ft 580 m1,480 ft 450 m1,060 ft 325 m850 ft 260 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
Grainger County averages about 1,300 ft (395 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 850 ft on the southwest side to 2,520 ft on the northeast side.
Average elevation
1,300 ft 395 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,520 ft 770 m
on the northeast side
Lowest
850 ft 260 m
on the southwest side
Grainger County spans about 1,670 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 | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 2,520 ft770 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 850 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.1 mi south to north through Bean Station.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 25,073 2024 est.
- Land area
- 280.6 sq mi + 21.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 89 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Hancock County1,540 ft
- Claiborne County1,490 ft
- Hawkins County1,430 ft
- Grainger County1,300 ft
- Hamblen County1,260 ft
- Union County1,260 ft
- Jefferson County1,170 ft
- Knox County1,010 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Tennessee26th highest of 92
- Counties in the United States1,002nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Donehew Head2,200 ft
- Stony Point Knob1,820 ft
- Diamond Peak1,740 ft
- Buzzard Knob1,740 ft
- Roach Knob1,650 ft
All 3 towns in Grainger County by typical elevation
- Bean Station1,140 ft
- Rutledge1,060 ft
- Blaine1,030 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.
- 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.