Van Buren County, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,140 ft 650 m1,800 ft 550 m1,630 ft 495 m1,290 ft 395 m960 ft 290 m790 ft 240 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Van Buren County averages about 1,580 ft (480 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 790 ft on the north side to 2,140 ft on Smartt Mountain.
Average elevation
1,580 ft 480 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,140 ft 650 m
on Smartt Mountain
Lowest
790 ft 240 m
on the north side
Van Buren County spans about 1,350 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,580 ft480 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Smartt Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 2,140 ft650 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 790 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
18 mi south to north through Spencer.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 6,686 2024 est.
- Land area
- 273.4 sq mi + 1.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 24 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Appalachian Plateaus 63%, Interior Low Plateaus 37%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Cumberland County1,790 ft
- Sequatchie County1,650 ft
- Bledsoe County1,600 ft
- Van Buren County1,580 ft
- White County1,200 ft
- Warren County1,110 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Tennessee13th highest of 92
- Counties in the United States793rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Smartt Mountain2,140 ft
- Hills Mountain2,040 ft
- Bald Knob, Van Buren County1,950 ft
- Salzer Mountain1,920 ft
- Baker Mountain, Van Buren County1,840 ft
The one town in Van Buren County
- Spencer1,770 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.