Rarity Bay, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m990 ft 300 m960 ft 290 m900 ft 275 m840 ft 255 m810 ft 245 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Rarity Bay sits at about 870 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
870 ft 265 m
most residents: 810–900 ft
Lowest
810 ft 245 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the southwest side
Average
880 ft 270 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Rarity Bay spans about 240 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 | 870 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 810 ft245 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rarity Bay | 920 ft280 m |
| Airport (MNV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.6 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 1,031 ft314 m |
| Average of all land | 880 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Monroe and Loudon counties, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 885 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.8 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 485 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.6272° N, 84.2599° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Monroe County (MNV) 1,031 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 37885
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Madisonville980 ft
- Sweetwater980 ft
- Lenoir City920 ft
- Kahite900 ft
- Tellico Village880 ft
- Vonore880 ft
- Friendsville880 ft
- Greenback870 ft
- Philadelphia870 ft
- Rarity Bay870 ft
- Loudon840 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee202nd highest of 504
- Towns in Monroe Countylowest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Knob5,560 ft
- Wauchecha Bald4,390 ft
- Rich Mountain3,701 ft
- Buffalo Mountain3,380 ft
- Chestnut Mountain2,610 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.
- Rarity Bay 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.