Memphis, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
520 ft 155 m430 ft 130 m390 ft 120 m310 ft 95 m230 ft 70 m180 ft 55 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Memphis sits at about 290 ft (85 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
290 ft 85 m
most residents: 250–330 ft
Lowest
180 ft 55 m
on the southwest side
Highest
520 ft 155 m
on the southeast side
Average
280 ft 85 m
all land inside city limits
Memphis spans about 340 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 | 290 ft85 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 520 ft155 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 180 ft55 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Memphis | 260 ft80 m |
| Airport (MEM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 341 ft104 m |
| Average of all land | 280 ft85 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
16 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 610,919 2024 est.
- Land area
- 289.8 sq mi + 8.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,108 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.1495° N, 90.0490° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Frederick W Smith International/Memphis (MEM) 341 ft
- ZIP codes 31
31 ZIP codes
38016 38018 38103 38104 38105 38106 38107 38108 38109 38111 38112 38113 38114 38115 38116 38117 38118 38119 38120 38122 38125 38126 38127 38128 38131 38132 38133 38134 38135 38141 38152
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Southaven, MS340 ft
- Germantown310 ft
- Bartlett300 ft
- Lynchburg, MS300 ft
- Memphis290 ft
- Horn Lake, MS290 ft
- Lakeview, MS250 ft
- Jericho, AR220 ft
- Sunset, AR220 ft
- Marion, AR220 ft
- West Memphis, AR210 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee500th highest of 504
- Towns in Shelby County6th highest of 7
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. All public domain.