Tusculum, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,670 ft 510 m1,570 ft 480 m1,520 ft 465 m1,420 ft 435 m1,320 ft 400 m1,270 ft 385 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
Tusculum sits at about 1,460 ft (445 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,460 ft 445 m
most residents: 1,420–1,490 ft
Lowest
1,270 ft 385 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,670 ft 510 m
on the north side
Average
1,450 ft 440 m
all land inside city limits
Tusculum spans about 400 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 | 1,460 ft445 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,670 ft510 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,270 ft385 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Tusculum | 1,480 ft450 m |
| Airport (GCY) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.7 mi northwest of the city limits | 1,608 ft490 m |
| Average of all land | 1,450 ft440 m |
| Nearest peak Coldspring Mountain, 8.2 mi southeast of the city limits (NGS survey) | 4,852 ft1,479 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Greene County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 3,394 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.9 sq mi
- Density
- 698 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.1751° N, 82.7588° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Nolichucky River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Greeneville Municipal (GCY) 1,608 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 37616 37745
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Jonesborough1,780 ft
- Erwin1,740 ft
- Banner Hill1,730 ft
- Telford1,610 ft
- Embreeville1,610 ft
- Greeneville1,550 ft
- Fall Branch1,530 ft
- Tusculum1,460 ft
- Mosheim1,330 ft
- Baileyton1,220 ft
- Bulls Gap1,170 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee70th highest of 504
- Towns in Greene County2nd highest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Bald5,516 ft
- Coldspring Mountain4,852 ft
- Flattop4,710 ft
- Spring Mountain3,660 ft
- Chimneytop Mountain3,114 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.