Jefferson County, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,630 ft 1,105 m2,930 ft 895 m2,580 ft 785 m1,880 ft 575 m1,190 ft 360 m840 ft 255 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
Jefferson County averages about 1,170 ft (355 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 840 ft on the west side to 3,630 ft on English Mountain.
Average elevation
1,170 ft 355 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,630 ft 1,105 m
on English Mountain
Lowest
840 ft 255 m
on the west side
Jefferson County spans about 2,790 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 | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on English Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 3,630 ft1,105 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 840 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
23 mi west to east through Jefferson City.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 59,217 2024 est.
- Land area
- 275.2 sq mi + 39.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 215 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge 99%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Sevier County1,980 ft
- Cocke County1,750 ft
- Grainger County1,300 ft
- Hamblen County1,260 ft
- Jefferson County1,170 ft
- Knox County1,010 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Tennessee34th highest of 92
- Counties in the United States1,158th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Koppick Knob1,650 ft
- Roderick Mountain1,450 ft
- Sourwood Mountain1,420 ft
- Thomas Knob1,370 ft
- Carmines Mountain1,370 ft
All 7 towns in Jefferson County by typical elevation
- Morristown partly1,340 ft
- Dandridge1,190 ft
- Jefferson City1,170 ft
- New Market1,150 ft
- White Pine1,130 ft
- Baneberry1,040 ft
- Strawberry Plains1,000 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.