Plainview, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,500 ft 460 m1,380 ft 420 m1,310 ft 400 m1,190 ft 360 m1,060 ft 325 m1,000 ft 305 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
Plainview sits at about 1,140 ft (345 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,140 ft 345 m
most residents: 1,130–1,330 ft
Lowest
1,000 ft 305 m
on the east side
Highest
1,510 ft 460 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,170 ft 360 m
all land inside city limits
Plainview spans about 510 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 | 1,140 ft345 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Average of all land | 1,170 ft360 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.8 mi west to east through the middle of Plainview.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Union County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 2,226 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.4 sq mi
- Density
- 350 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.1756° N, 83.7984° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 37721 37779
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Luttrell1,250 ft
- Maynardville1,240 ft
- New Market1,150 ft
- Plainview1,140 ft
- Halls1,070 ft
- Norris1,070 ft
- Blaine1,030 ft
- Andersonville1,020 ft
- John Sevier1,010 ft
- Strawberry Plains1,000 ft
- Mascot970 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee107th highest of 504
- Towns in Union Countylowest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cross Mountain3,535 ft
- Buffalo Mountain3,380 ft
- Bryson Mountain3,130 ft
- Bluff Mountain3,073 ft
- Stout Knob2,950 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.