Scott County, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,250 ft 990 m2,640 ft 805 m2,330 ft 710 m1,720 ft 525 m1,100 ft 335 m800 ft 245 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
Scott County averages about 1,540 ft (470 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 800 ft on the north side to 3,250 ft on Burge Mountain.
Average elevation
1,540 ft 470 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,250 ft 990 m
on Burge Mountain
Lowest
800 ft 245 m
on the north side
Scott County spans about 2,450 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 | 1,540 ft470 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Burge Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 3,250 ft990 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 800 ft245 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
21 mi west to east through Oneida.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 22,517 2024 est.
- Land area
- 532.3 sq mi + 0.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 42 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian 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
- Campbell County1,610 ft
- Scott County1,540 ft
- Morgan County1,500 ft
- Fentress County1,490 ft
- Anderson County1,310 ft
- McCreary County, KY1,190 ft
- Pickett County1,090 ft
- Wayne County, KY1,080 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Tennessee15th highest of 92
- Counties in the United States821st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Burge Mountain3,250 ft
- Walnut Knob, Scott County3,240 ft
- High Point, Scott County3,170 ft
- Norman Pond Knob3,010 ft
- Signal Mountain, Scott County2,914 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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.