Monroe County, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,460 ft 1,665 m4,290 ft 1,310 m3,710 ft 1,130 m2,550 ft 775 m1,390 ft 425 m810 ft 245 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
Monroe County averages about 1,460 ft (445 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 810 ft on the north side to 5,460 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
1,460 ft 445 m
all land inside the county
Highest
5,460 ft 1,665 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
810 ft 245 m
on the north side
Monroe County spans about 4,650 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 | 1,460 ft445 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 5,460 ft1,665 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 810 ft245 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
27 mi south to north through Sweetwater.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 49,154 2024 est.
- Land area
- 635.8 sq mi + 16.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 77 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Blue Ridge 61%, Valley and Ridge 39%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Graham County, NC2,840 ft
- Cherokee County, NC2,130 ft
- Monroe County1,460 ft
- Blount County1,420 ft
- Polk County1,380 ft
- Loudon County930 ft
- McMinn County910 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Tennessee20th highest of 92
- Counties in the United States877th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Rattlesnake Rock4,460 ft
- Rockstack4,370 ft
- Big Fodderstack, Monroe County4,330 ft
- Hemlock Knob4,010 ft
- Little Bald, Monroe County3,990 ft
All 7 towns in Monroe County by typical elevation
- Coker Creek1,640 ft
- Madisonville980 ft
- Sweetwater980 ft
- Tellico Plains930 ft
- Kahite900 ft
- Vonore880 ft
- Rarity Bay870 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.