Sevier County, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,640 ft 2,025 m5,190 ft 1,585 m4,470 ft 1,360 m3,020 ft 920 m1,570 ft 480 m850 ft 260 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
Sevier County averages about 1,980 ft (605 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 850 ft on the northwest side to 6,640 ft on Kuwohi.
Average elevation
1,980 ft 605 m
all land inside the county
Highest
6,640 ft 2,025 m
on Kuwohi
Lowest
850 ft 260 m
on the northwest side
Sevier County spans about 5,790 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 | 1,980 ft605 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Kuwohi (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 6,640 ft2,025 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 850 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
29 mi south to north through Sevierville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 100,184 2024 est.
- Land area
- 592.5 sq mi + 5.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 169 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Blue Ridge 69%, Valley and Ridge 31%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Haywood County, NC3,590 ft
- Swain County, NC3,240 ft
- Sevier County1,980 ft
- Cocke County1,750 ft
- Blount County1,420 ft
- Jefferson County1,170 ft
- Knox County1,010 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Tennessee4th highest of 92
- Counties in the United States629th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Guyot6,620 ft
- Mount Le Conte6,590 ft
- Cove Mountain4,084 ft
- Webb Mountain3,090 ft
- Bluff Mountain3,073 ft
All 6 towns in Sevier County by typical elevation
- Gatlinburg1,690 ft
- Pittman Center1,480 ft
- Fairgarden1,230 ft
- Seymour1,070 ft
- Pigeon Forge1,060 ft
- Sevierville970 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.
- 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, 720 ft at 35.8424° N, 83.5579° 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.