Pickett County, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,790 ft 545 m1,500 ft 460 m1,360 ft 415 m1,070 ft 325 m790 ft 240 m640 ft 195 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Pickett County averages about 1,090 ft (330 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 640 ft on the west side to 1,790 ft on Golman Mountain.
Average elevation
1,090 ft 330 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,790 ft 545 m
on Golman Mountain
Lowest
640 ft 195 m
on the west side
Pickett County spans about 1,150 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,090 ft330 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Golman Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 1,790 ft545 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 640 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
28 mi west to east through Byrdstown.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 5,108 2024 est.
- Land area
- 163.0 sq mi + 11.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 31 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Interior Low Plateaus 57%, Appalachian Plateaus 43%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Scott County1,540 ft
- Fentress County1,490 ft
- Overton County1,210 ft
- Pickett County1,090 ft
- Wayne County, KY1,080 ft
- Clinton County, KY1,000 ft
- Clay County820 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Tennessee37th highest of 92
- Counties in the United States1,263rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Golman Mountain1,790 ft
- Lynch Pinnacle1,700 ft
- Huddleston Knob1,700 ft
- Littoral Mountain1,660 ft
- Regan Knob1,640 ft
The one town in Pickett County
- Byrdstown1,010 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.