Pelham, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,980 ft 605 m1,730 ft 525 m1,600 ft 490 m1,350 ft 410 m1,100 ft 335 m970 ft 295 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Pelham sits at about 1,020 ft (310 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,020 ft 310 m
most residents: 1,010–1,260 ft
Lowest
970 ft 295 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,980 ft 605 m
on the north side
Average
1,230 ft 375 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Pelham spans about 1,010 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 | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 1,980 ft605 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 970 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pelham | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Airport (UOS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.5 mi south of the CDP boundary | 1,953 ft595 m |
| Average of all land | 1,230 ft375 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Grundy County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 371 2020 Census
- Land area
- 16.6 sq mi
- Density
- 22 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.3101° N, 85.8808° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Elk River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Franklin County (UOS) 1,953 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 37366
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sewanee1,920 ft
- Monteagle1,910 ft
- Coalmont1,890 ft
- Gruetli-Laager1,870 ft
- Altamont1,870 ft
- Tracy City1,860 ft
- Hillsboro1,060 ft
- Pelham1,020 ft
- Cowan980 ft
- Decherd970 ft
- Estill Springs950 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee137th highest of 504
- Towns in Grundy Countylowest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hinch Mountain3,041 ft
- Pull Tight Hill1,960 ft
- Tanyard Point1,940 ft
- Thurman Point1,930 ft
- Evans Point1,270 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.
- Pelham 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.