Jamestown, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,810 ft 555 m1,770 ft 540 m1,740 ft 530 m1,690 ft 515 m1,650 ft 500 m1,620 ft 495 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Jamestown sits at about 1,730 ft (525 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,730 ft 525 m
most residents: 1,690–1,740 ft
Lowest
1,620 ft 495 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,820 ft 555 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,720 ft 525 m
all land inside city limits
Jamestown spans about 200 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 | 1,730 ft525 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,820 ft555 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,620 ft495 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Jamestown | 1,710 ft525 m |
| Airport (2A1) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.4 mi south of the city limits | 1,694 ft516 m |
| Average of all land | 1,720 ft525 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Fentress County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 2,102 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.1 sq mi
- Density
- 674 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.4276° N, 84.9319° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Obey River → Cumberland River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Jamestown Municipal (2A1) 1,694 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 38556
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Clarkrange1,790 ft
- Grimsley1,730 ft
- Jamestown1,730 ft
- Allardt1,650 ft
- Helenwood1,470 ft
- Elgin1,450 ft
- Sunbright1,410 ft
- Robbins1,400 ft
- Livingston1,040 ft
- Byrdstown1,010 ft
- Albany, KY950 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee35th highest of 504
- Towns in Fentress County3rd highest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cross Mountain3,535 ft
- Buffalo Mountain3,380 ft
- Stallion Mountain3,340 ft
- Hinch Mountain3,041 ft
- Lone Mountain2,530 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city limits (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.
- 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.