Nixon, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
560 ft 170 m520 ft 160 m500 ft 150 m460 ft 140 m420 ft 125 m400 ft 120 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Nixon sits at about 460 ft (140 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
460 ft 140 m
most residents: 440–510 ft
Lowest
390 ft 120 m
on the south side
Highest
560 ft 170 m
on the northeast side
Average
470 ft 145 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Nixon spans about 170 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 | 460 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 560 ft170 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 390 ft120 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Nixon | 500 ft150 m |
| Airport (SNH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.6 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 473 ft144 m |
| Average of all land | 470 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Hardin County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 514 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.8 sq mi
- Density
- 291 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.1148° N, 88.2567° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Savannah-Hardin County (SNH) 473 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 38372
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Walnut Grove, Hardin County720 ft
- Michie500 ft
- Shiloh500 ft
- Childers Hill490 ft
- Adamsville490 ft
- Counce490 ft
- Stantonville470 ft
- Nixon460 ft
- Olivet460 ft
- Crump440 ft
- Savannah430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee393rd highest of 504
- Towns in Hardin County5th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sand Hill, Hardin County760 ft
- Sand Mountain, Hardin County700 ft
- Turkey Knob, Hardin County680 ft
- Martin Camp Hill650 ft
- Sand Hill, Hardin County640 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Nixon is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.