Sewanee, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,970 ft 600 m1,780 ft 540 m1,680 ft 510 m1,490 ft 455 m1,300 ft 395 m1,200 ft 365 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
Sewanee sits at about 1,920 ft (585 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,920 ft 585 m
most residents: 1,870–1,930 ft
Lowest
1,200 ft 365 m
on the south side
Highest
1,970 ft 600 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,860 ft 565 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Sewanee spans about 770 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 | 1,920 ft585 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 1,970 ft600 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sewanee | 1,930 ft590 m |
| Airport (UOS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.3 mi east of the CDP boundary | 1,953 ft595 m |
| Average of all land | 1,860 ft565 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Franklin County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 2,535 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.9 sq mi
- Density
- 652 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.2031° N, 85.9211° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Franklin County (UOS) 1,953 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 37375 37383
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sewanee1,920 ft
- Monteagle1,910 ft
- Tracy City1,860 ft
- Orme1,280 ft
- Hillsboro1,060 ft
- Pelham1,020 ft
- Cowan980 ft
- Decherd970 ft
- Winchester950 ft
- Estill Springs950 ft
- Sherwood710 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee11th highest of 504
- Towns in Franklin Countyhighest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Claibornes View1,920 ft
- Otey View1,920 ft
- Payne View1,910 ft
- High Top, Franklin County1,890 ft
- Cape of Good Hope1,890 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.
- Sewanee 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. All public domain.