Mountain City, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,810 ft 855 m2,680 ft 815 m2,610 ft 795 m2,480 ft 755 m2,340 ft 715 m2,280 ft 695 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Mountain City sits at about 2,470 ft (755 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,470 ft 755 m
most residents: 2,300–2,560 ft
Lowest
2,280 ft 695 m
on the south side
Highest
2,810 ft 855 m
on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
2,460 ft 750 m
all land inside town limits
Mountain City spans about 530 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 | 2,470 ft755 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,810 ft855 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 2,280 ft695 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mountain City | 2,420 ft740 m |
| Airport (6A4) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.8 mi south of the town limits | 2,241 ft683 m |
| Average of all land | 2,460 ft750 m |
| Nearest peak The Bald, 5.5 mi south of the town limits | 4,650 ft1,415 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Johnson County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 2,486 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.4 sq mi
- Density
- 738 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.4746° N, 81.8048° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Holston River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Johnson County (6A4) 2,241 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 37683
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Beech Mountain, NC4,480 ft
- Boone, NC3,250 ft
- Valle Crucis, NC3,140 ft
- West Jefferson, NC3,090 ft
- Jefferson, NC2,990 ft
- Cove Creek, NC2,900 ft
- Lansing, NC2,810 ft
- Mountain City2,470 ft
- Abingdon, VA2,120 ft
- Butler2,090 ft
- Damascus, VA1,970 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee2nd highest of 504
- Towns in Johnson Countyhighest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Elk Knob5,550 ft
- Bluff Mountain5,080 ft
- Three Top Mountain5,010 ft
- Pond Mountain4,940 ft
- The Bald4,650 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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.