Hancock County, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,610 ft 795 m2,230 ft 680 m2,040 ft 620 m1,650 ft 505 m1,270 ft 385 m1,080 ft 330 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
Hancock County averages about 1,540 ft (470 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,080 ft on the southwest side to 2,610 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
1,540 ft 470 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,610 ft 795 m
on the west side
Lowest
1,080 ft 330 m
on the southwest side
Hancock County spans about 1,530 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 | 1,540 ft470 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 2,610 ft795 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 1,080 ft330 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
17 mi west to east through Sneedville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 7,038 2024 est.
- Land area
- 222.3 sq mi + 1.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 32 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
- Scott County, VA1,830 ft
- Lee County, VA1,760 ft
- Hancock County1,540 ft
- Claiborne County1,490 ft
- Hawkins County1,430 ft
- Grainger County1,300 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Tennessee14th highest of 92
- Counties in the United States817th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Jabez Knob2,550 ft
- Short Mountain, Hancock County2,260 ft
- Jackson Hill1,710 ft
- Evans Knob1,570 ft
The one town in Hancock County
- Sneedville1,240 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.