Sweetwater, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,290 ft 395 m1,190 ft 360 m1,140 ft 345 m1,040 ft 315 m930 ft 285 m880 ft 270 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
Sweetwater sits at about 980 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
980 ft 300 m
most residents: 930–1,050 ft
Lowest
880 ft 270 m
on the north side
Highest
1,290 ft 395 m
on the south side
Average
990 ft 300 m
all land inside city limits
Sweetwater spans about 410 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 | 980 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,290 ft395 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 880 ft270 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sweetwater | 920 ft280 m |
| Airport (MNV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.5 mi southeast of the city limits | 1,031 ft314 m |
| Average of all land | 990 ft300 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Monroe and McMinn counties, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 6,676 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.0 sq mi
- Density
- 744 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.6015° N, 84.4610° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Monroe County (MNV) 1,031 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 37874
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Niota1,010 ft
- Madisonville980 ft
- Sweetwater980 ft
- Athens940 ft
- Kahite900 ft
- Tellico Village880 ft
- Vonore880 ft
- Philadelphia870 ft
- Rarity Bay870 ft
- Englewood850 ft
- Loudon840 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee151st highest of 504
- Towns in Monroe County3rd highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Knob5,560 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.