Hawkins County, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,110 ft 950 m2,600 ft 790 m2,340 ft 715 m1,820 ft 555 m1,310 ft 400 m1,050 ft 320 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
Hawkins County averages about 1,430 ft (435 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,050 ft on the west side to 3,114 ft on Chimneytop Mountain.
Average elevation
1,430 ft 435 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,114 ft 949 m
on Chimneytop Mountain
Lowest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the west side
Hawkins County spans about 2,060 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 | 1,430 ft435 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Chimneytop Mountain (NGS survey height) | 3,114 ft949 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 1,050 ft320 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
13 mi south to north through Church Hill.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 59,371 2024 est.
- Land area
- 487.1 sq mi + 12.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 122 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
- Washington County1,720 ft
- Sullivan County1,710 ft
- Hancock County1,540 ft
- Greene County1,540 ft
- Hawkins County1,430 ft
- Grainger County1,300 ft
- Hamblen County1,260 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Tennessee21st highest of 92
- Counties in the United States902nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Short Mountain2,679 ft
- High Point, Hawkins County2,428 ft
- Devils Nose2,420 ft
- Holston River Mountain2,390 ft
- Cherry Knobs2,170 ft
All 8 towns in Hawkins County by typical elevation
- Mount Carmel1,390 ft
- Rogersville1,340 ft
- Kingsport partly1,330 ft
- Church Hill1,320 ft
- Surgoinsville1,250 ft
- Bulls Gap1,170 ft
- Bean Station partly1,140 ft
- Mooresburg1,130 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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.