Gray, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,630 ft 495 m1,570 ft 480 m1,540 ft 470 m1,490 ft 455 m1,430 ft 435 m1,400 ft 425 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Gray sits at about 1,530 ft (465 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,530 ft 465 m
most residents: 1,460–1,570 ft
Lowest
1,400 ft 425 m
on the north side
Highest
1,630 ft 495 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,520 ft 465 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Gray spans about 230 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 | 1,530 ft465 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 1,630 ft495 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 1,400 ft425 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gray | 1,580 ft480 m |
| Airport (TRI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.4 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 1,519 ft463 m |
| Average of all land | 1,520 ft465 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Washington County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 1,293 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Density
- 870 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.4198° N, 82.4765° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Holston River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Tri-Cities (TRI) 1,519 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 37615
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Jonesborough1,780 ft
- Johnson City1,670 ft
- Gray1,530 ft
- Orebank1,530 ft
- Fall Branch1,530 ft
- Watauga1,520 ft
- Oak Grove1,510 ft
- Spurgeon1,450 ft
- Colonial Heights1,430 ft
- Kingsport1,330 ft
- Sullivan Gardens1,320 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee58th highest of 504
- Towns in Washington County5th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Unaka Mountain5,170 ft
- Coldspring Mountain4,852 ft
- Flattop4,710 ft
- Pinnacle Mountain3,520 ft
- Chimneytop Mountain3,114 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Gray is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.