Morristown, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,780 ft 545 m1,590 ft 485 m1,490 ft 455 m1,300 ft 395 m1,100 ft 335 m1,010 ft 305 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Morristown sits at about 1,340 ft (405 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,340 ft 405 m
most residents: 1,250–1,420 ft
Lowest
1,010 ft 305 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,780 ft 545 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,310 ft 400 m
all land inside city limits
Morristown spans about 770 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 | 1,340 ft405 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,780 ft545 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,010 ft305 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Morristown | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Airport (MOR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,313 ft400 m |
| Average of all land | 1,310 ft400 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Hamblen and Jefferson counties, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 32,994 2024 est.
- Land area
- 28.3 sq mi
- Density
- 1,164 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.2140° N, 83.2949° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Holston River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Moore-Murrell (MOR) 1,313 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 37813 37814 37877
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Morristown1,340 ft
- Russellville1,310 ft
- Dandridge1,190 ft
- Jefferson City1,170 ft
- Bulls Gap1,170 ft
- New Market1,150 ft
- Bean Station1,140 ft
- Mooresburg1,130 ft
- White Pine1,130 ft
- Rutledge1,060 ft
- Baneberry1,040 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee82nd highest of 504
- Towns in Hamblen Countyhighest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Snowbird Mountain4,250 ft
- English Mountain3,630 ft
- Stone Mountain3,604 ft
- Webb Mountain3,090 ft
- Short Mountain2,679 ft
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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.