Jonesborough, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,990 ft 605 m1,900 ft 580 m1,860 ft 565 m1,770 ft 540 m1,690 ft 515 m1,640 ft 500 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Jonesborough sits at about 1,780 ft (540 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,780 ft 540 m
most residents: 1,700–1,850 ft
Lowest
1,640 ft 500 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,990 ft 605 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,780 ft 540 m
all land inside town limits
Jonesborough spans about 350 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 | 1,780 ft540 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 1,990 ft605 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 1,640 ft500 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Jonesborough | 1,690 ft515 m |
| Airport (TRI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi north of the town limits | 1,519 ft463 m |
| Average of all land | 1,780 ft540 m |
| Nearest peak Pinnacle Mountain, 6.7 mi southeast of the town limits | 3,520 ft1,075 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Washington County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 6,746 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.5 sq mi
- Density
- 1,229 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.2943° N, 82.4735° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Nolichucky River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Tri-Cities (TRI) 1,519 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 37659
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Unicoi1,930 ft
- Jonesborough1,780 ft
- Erwin1,740 ft
- Pine Crest1,680 ft
- Johnson City1,670 ft
- Central1,630 ft
- Telford1,610 ft
- Embreeville1,610 ft
- Gray1,530 ft
- Oak Grove1,510 ft
- Spurgeon1,450 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee29th highest of 504
- Towns in Washington Countyhighest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Unaka Mountain5,170 ft
- Coldspring Mountain4,852 ft
- Flattop4,710 ft
- Pinnacle Mountain3,520 ft
- Chimneytop Mountain3,114 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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.