Spencer, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,840 ft 560 m1,690 ft 515 m1,620 ft 495 m1,470 ft 450 m1,320 ft 405 m1,250 ft 380 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Spencer sits at about 1,770 ft (540 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,770 ft 540 m
most residents: 1,710–1,800 ft
Lowest
1,250 ft 380 m
on the south side
Highest
1,840 ft 560 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,740 ft 530 m
all land inside city limits
Spencer spans about 590 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 | 1,770 ft540 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,840 ft560 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Spencer | 1,800 ft550 m |
| Average of all land | 1,740 ft530 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Van Buren County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 1,590 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.6 sq mi
- Density
- 243 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.7473° N, 85.4666° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Caney Fork → Cumberland River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 38585
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lake Tansi1,880 ft
- Pleasant Hill1,860 ft
- Beersheba Springs1,860 ft
- Bon Air1,850 ft
- Spencer1,770 ft
- Centertown1,080 ft
- Smithville1,060 ft
- McMinnville970 ft
- Doyle950 ft
- Sparta940 ft
- Pikeville860 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee30th highest of 504
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stallion Mountain3,340 ft
- Hinch Mountain3,041 ft
- Oswald Dome3,022 ft
- Chestnut Mountain2,610 ft
- Lone Mountain2,530 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.