Shelbyville, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,040 ft 320 m950 ft 290 m910 ft 275 m820 ft 250 m730 ft 225 m690 ft 210 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Shelbyville sits at about 780 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
780 ft 235 m
most residents: 750–810 ft
Lowest
690 ft 210 m
on the west side
Highest
1,040 ft 320 m
on the northeast side
Average
780 ft 240 m
all land inside city limits
Shelbyville spans about 350 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 | 780 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,040 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 690 ft210 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shelbyville | 760 ft235 m |
| Airport (SYI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 800 ft244 m |
| Average of all land | 780 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Bedford County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 25,792 2024 est.
- Land area
- 19.6 sq mi
- Density
- 1,317 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.4834° N, 86.4603° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Duck River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Bomar Field/Shelbyville Municipal (SYI) 800 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 37160
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tullahoma1,060 ft
- Lynchburg, Moore County1,030 ft
- Bell Buckle860 ft
- Wartrace840 ft
- Normandy820 ft
- Shelbyville780 ft
- Lewisburg770 ft
- Petersburg760 ft
- Unionville710 ft
- Chapel Hill700 ft
- Christiana670 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee259th highest of 504
- Towns in Bedford County4th highest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Horse Mountain1,190 ft
- Claxton Hill1,130 ft
- Whiteside Hill1,100 ft
- Troup Hill960 ft
- Fay Hill940 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city limits (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.
- 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.