Macon County, TN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,100 ft 335 m950 ft 290 m870 ft 265 m730 ft 220 m580 ft 175 m500 ft 155 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Macon County averages about 860 ft (265 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 500 ft on the southwest side to 1,100 ft on the southeast side.

Average elevation

860 ft 265 m

all land inside the county

Highest

1,100 ft 335 m

on the southeast side

Lowest

500 ft 155 m

on the southwest side

Macon County spans about 600 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	860 ft265 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side	1,100 ft335 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side	500 ft155 m

Elevation profile, south to north

14 mi south to north through Lafayette.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Tennessee, United States
Population: 27,189 2024 est.
Land area: 307.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
Density: 89 per sq mi
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Interior Low Plateaus
Drains to: Gulf of America

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Macon County860 ft
Monroe County, KY840 ft
Clay County820 ft
Jackson County790 ft
Allen County, KY710 ft
Sumner County700 ft
Smith County680 ft
Trousdale County620 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Tennessee46th highest of 92
Counties in the United States1,675th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Hard Scratch Hill1,050 ft

All 2 towns in Macon County by typical elevation

Lafayette960 ft
Red Boiling Springs870 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. 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.