Morgan County, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,330 ft 1,015 m2,680 ft 815 m2,360 ft 720 m1,710 ft 520 m1,060 ft 325 m740 ft 225 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
Morgan County averages about 1,500 ft (455 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 740 ft on the south side to 3,330 ft on Big Fodderstack.
Average elevation
1,500 ft 455 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,330 ft 1,015 m
on Big Fodderstack
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the south side
Morgan County spans about 2,590 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 | 1,500 ft455 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Big Fodderstack (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 3,330 ft1,015 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 740 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.5 mi south to north through Coalfield.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 21,954 2024 est.
- Land area
- 522.2 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 42 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian 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
- Cumberland County1,790 ft
- Scott County1,540 ft
- Morgan County1,500 ft
- Fentress County1,490 ft
- Anderson County1,310 ft
- Roane County930 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Tennessee17th highest of 92
- Counties in the United States852nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Big Fodderstack, Morgan County3,330 ft
- Frozen Head Mountain3,320 ft
- Squire Knob3,320 ft
- Guinea Hill Knob3,260 ft
- Lone Mountain2,530 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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.