Pigeon Forge, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,770 ft 540 m1,550 ft 475 m1,450 ft 440 m1,230 ft 375 m1,020 ft 310 m910 ft 275 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
Pigeon Forge sits at about 1,060 ft (325 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,060 ft 325 m
most residents: 970–1,160 ft
Lowest
910 ft 275 m
on the north side
Highest
1,770 ft 540 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,090 ft 330 m
all land inside city limits
Pigeon Forge spans about 860 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 | 1,060 ft325 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,770 ft540 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 910 ft275 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pigeon Forge | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Airport (GKT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.3 mi north of the city limits | 1,014 ft309 m |
| Average of all land | 1,090 ft330 m |
| Nearest peak Bluff Mountain, 1.8 mi west of the city limits (NGS survey) | 3,073 ft937 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 6,446 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.8 sq mi
- Density
- 466 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.7884° N, 83.5543° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge (GKT) 1,014 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 37862 37863
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gatlinburg1,690 ft
- Cosby1,630 ft
- Pittman Center1,480 ft
- Fairgarden1,230 ft
- Dandridge1,190 ft
- Townsend1,110 ft
- Seymour1,070 ft
- Pigeon Forge1,060 ft
- Sevierville970 ft
- Walland950 ft
- Wildwood920 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee123rd highest of 504
- Towns in Sevier County5th highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Le Conte6,590 ft
- Cove Mountain4,084 ft
- Webb Mountain3,090 ft
- Bluff Mountain3,073 ft
- Round Top3,070 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).
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.