Prospect, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
770 ft 235 m720 ft 220 m690 ft 210 m640 ft 195 m590 ft 180 m560 ft 170 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Prospect sits at about 630 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
630 ft 195 m
most residents: 590–650 ft
Lowest
560 ft 170 m
on the south side
Highest
770 ft 235 m
on the northeast side
Average
630 ft 190 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Prospect spans about 210 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 | 630 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 770 ft235 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 560 ft170 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Prospect | 600 ft185 m |
| Airport (GZS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.7 mi north of the CDP boundary | 689 ft210 m |
| Average of all land | 630 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Giles County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 121 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.4 sq mi
- Density
- 87 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.0298° N, 87.0031° 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
- Abernathy Field (GZS) 689 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 38477
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ardmore900 ft
- Ardmore, AL900 ft
- Blanche890 ft
- Minor Hill870 ft
- Elkmont, AL830 ft
- Lester, AL790 ft
- Dellrose710 ft
- Frankewing700 ft
- Pulaski700 ft
- Elkton660 ft
- Prospect630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee315th highest of 504
- Towns in Giles Countylowest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- S Hill1,010 ft
- Turkey Knob, Giles County960 ft
- Rogers Hill950 ft
- Minor Hill900 ft
- Adams Hill880 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.
- Prospect 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. All public domain.