Selmer, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
590 ft 180 m550 ft 170 m530 ft 160 m480 ft 150 m440 ft 135 m420 ft 125 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Selmer sits at about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
490 ft 150 m
most residents: 450–520 ft
Lowest
420 ft 125 m
on the south side
Highest
590 ft 180 m
on the northwest side
Average
490 ft 150 m
all land inside town limits
Selmer spans about 170 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 | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 590 ft180 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 420 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Selmer | 450 ft135 m |
| Airport (SZY) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.5 mi northeast of the town limits | 610 ft186 m |
| Average of all land | 490 ft150 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in McNairy County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 4,590 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.6 sq mi
- Density
- 481 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.1701° N, 88.5923° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Hatchie River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Robert Sibley (SZY) 610 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 38375
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Guys510 ft
- Michie500 ft
- Eastview500 ft
- Shiloh500 ft
- Finger500 ft
- Adamsville490 ft
- Bethel Springs490 ft
- Selmer490 ft
- Stantonville470 ft
- Chewalla450 ft
- Ramer430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee381st highest of 504
- Towns in McNairy County7th highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Peter680 ft
- Martin Camp Hill650 ft
- Laurel Hill650 ft
- Rose Hill640 ft
- Clover Hill600 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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 35.1496° N, 88.6010° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.