Parsons, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
590 ft 180 m540 ft 165 m520 ft 160 m470 ft 145 m420 ft 130 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Parsons sits at about 500 ft (155 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
500 ft 155 m
most residents: 460–520 ft
Lowest
400 ft 120 m
on the southeast side
Highest
590 ft 180 m
on the northeast side
Average
490 ft 150 m
all land inside city limits
Parsons spans about 190 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 | 500 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 590 ft180 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 400 ft120 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Parsons | 500 ft150 m |
| Airport (PVE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.6 mi west of the city limits | 488 ft149 m |
| Average of all land | 490 ft150 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Decatur County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 2,159 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.0 sq mi
- Density
- 535 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.6498° N, 88.1267° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Beech River Regional (PVE) 488 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 38363
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Linden540 ft
- Parker's Crossroads510 ft
- Parsons500 ft
- Lexington500 ft
- Decaturville500 ft
- Scotts Hill490 ft
- Wildersville480 ft
- Sardis480 ft
- Holladay450 ft
- Darden440 ft
- Chesterfield430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee369th highest of 504
- Towns in Decatur Countyhighest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Ward Hill, Perry County720 ft
- Horses Head710 ft
- Spout Spring Hill660 ft
- Bunker Hill, Perry County650 ft
- Cotham Hill590 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 330 ft at 35.6935° N, 88.1043° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.