Jefferson City, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,640 ft 500 m1,490 ft 455 m1,420 ft 435 m1,270 ft 390 m1,130 ft 345 m1,060 ft 320 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Jefferson City sits at about 1,170 ft (355 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,170 ft 355 m
most residents: 1,120–1,320 ft
Lowest
1,060 ft 320 m
on the north side
Highest
1,640 ft 500 m
on the south side
Average
1,200 ft 365 m
all land inside city limits
Jefferson City spans about 580 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 | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,640 ft500 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,060 ft320 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Jefferson City | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Airport (MOR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.4 mi northeast of the city limits | 1,313 ft400 m |
| Average of all land | 1,200 ft365 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Jefferson County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 9,013 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,276 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.1223° N, 83.4924° 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
- Moore-Murrell (MOR) 1,313 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 37760
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Morristown1,340 ft
- Luttrell1,250 ft
- Dandridge1,190 ft
- Jefferson City1,170 ft
- New Market1,150 ft
- White Pine1,130 ft
- Rutledge1,060 ft
- Baneberry1,040 ft
- Blaine1,030 ft
- Strawberry Plains1,000 ft
- Mascot970 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee102nd highest of 504
- Towns in Jefferson County2nd highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- English Mountain3,630 ft
- Stone Mountain3,604 ft
- Webb Mountain3,090 ft
- Bluff Mountain3,073 ft
- Short Mountain2,679 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.