Rutherford County, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,370 ft 415 m1,140 ft 350 m1,030 ft 315 m810 ft 250 m590 ft 180 m480 ft 145 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
Rutherford County averages about 680 ft (210 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 480 ft on the north side to 1,370 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
680 ft 210 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,370 ft 415 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
480 ft 145 m
on the north side
Rutherford County spans about 890 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 | 680 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,370 ft415 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 480 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
28 mi south to north through Murfreesboro.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 376,996 2024 est.
- Land area
- 619.5 sq mi + 4.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 609 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Coffee County1,090 ft
- Cannon County1,000 ft
- Bedford County840 ft
- Marshall County820 ft
- Williamson County780 ft
- Rutherford County680 ft
- Wilson County660 ft
- Davidson County590 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Tennessee62nd highest of 92
- Counties in the United States2,063rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Prater Hill1,370 ft
- Locust Knob, Rutherford County1,330 ft
- Hickory Hill, Rutherford County1,320 ft
- Gowen Knob1,320 ft
- Soapstone Hill1,310 ft
All 7 towns in Rutherford County by typical elevation
- Eagleville780 ft
- Rockvale680 ft
- Christiana670 ft
- Murfreesboro610 ft
- La Vergne600 ft
- Walterhill560 ft
- Smyrna550 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. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 420 ft at 36.0074° N, 86.4332° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.