Greeneville, TN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,790 ft 545 m1,660 ft 505 m1,590 ft 485 m1,450 ft 440 m1,310 ft 400 m1,250 ft 380 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Greeneville sits at about 1,550 ft (470 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,550 ft 470 m

most residents: 1,480–1,610 ft

Lowest

1,250 ft 380 m

on the west side

Highest

1,790 ft 545 m

on the northeast side

Average

1,520 ft 465 m

all land inside town limits

Greeneville spans about 540 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	1,550 ft470 m
Highest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side	1,790 ft545 m
Lowest point Inside town limits, on the west side	1,250 ft380 m
Town center USGS map point for Greeneville	1,520 ft465 m
Airport (GCY) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways	1,608 ft490 m
Average of all land	1,520 ft465 m

Elevation profile, west to east

6.3 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Town in Greene County, Tennessee, United States
Population: 15,979 2024 est.
Land area: 17.0 sq mi
Density: 940 per sq mi
Coordinates: 36.1632° N, 82.8310° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Valley and Ridge
Drains to: Nolichucky River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: Greeneville Municipal (GCY) 1,608 ft
ZIP codes 2: 37743 37745

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Telford1,610 ft
Embreeville1,610 ft
Greeneville1,550 ft
Fall Branch1,530 ft
Tusculum1,460 ft
Hot Springs, NC1,370 ft
Rogersville1,340 ft
Mosheim1,330 ft
Parrottsville1,220 ft
Baileyton1,220 ft
Bulls Gap1,170 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Tennessee57th highest of 504
Towns in Greene Countyhighest of 4

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Big Bald5,516 ft
Coldspring Mountain4,852 ft
Spring Mountain3,660 ft
Chimneytop Mountain3,114 ft
Short Mountain2,679 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).
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, 1,230 ft at 36.1749° N, 82.9110° 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.