Karns, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,300 ft 395 m1,210 ft 370 m1,160 ft 355 m1,070 ft 325 m980 ft 300 m930 ft 285 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Karns sits at about 990 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
990 ft 300 m
most residents: 970–1,020 ft
Lowest
930 ft 285 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,300 ft 395 m
on the east side
Average
1,000 ft 305 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Karns spans about 370 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 | 990 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 930 ft285 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Karns | 980 ft300 m |
| Airport (TYS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 986 ft301 m |
| Average of all land | 1,000 ft305 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Knox County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 3,536 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.0 sq mi
- Density
- 1,185 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.9820° N, 84.1138° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Mc Ghee Tyson (TYS) 986 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 37931
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Powell1,090 ft
- Halls1,070 ft
- Knoxville990 ft
- Karns990 ft
- Farragut960 ft
- Oak Ridge930 ft
- Briceville920 ft
- Louisville890 ft
- Clinton880 ft
- Rockford870 ft
- Oliver Springs820 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee147th highest of 504
- Towns in Knox County5th highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cross Mountain3,535 ft
- Buffalo Mountain3,380 ft
- Stallion Mountain3,340 ft
- Bluff Mountain3,073 ft
- Lone Mountain2,530 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 930 ft at 35.9663° N, 84.1310° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Karns is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.