Walnut Hill, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,060 ft 630 m1,910 ft 585 m1,840 ft 560 m1,680 ft 515 m1,530 ft 465 m1,460 ft 445 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Walnut Hill sits at about 1,700 ft (520 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,700 ft 520 m
most residents: 1,610–1,830 ft
Lowest
1,460 ft 445 m
on the south side
Highest
2,060 ft 630 m
on the west side
Average
1,700 ft 520 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Walnut Hill spans about 600 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 | 1,700 ft520 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 2,060 ft630 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 1,460 ft445 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Walnut Hill | 1,600 ft485 m |
| Airport (TRI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.7 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 1,519 ft463 m |
| Average of all land | 1,700 ft520 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Sullivan County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 2,331 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.1 sq mi
- Density
- 568 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.5698° N, 82.2568° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Holston River → Tennessee River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Tri-Cities (TRI) 1,519 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 37620
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bristol, VA1,810 ft
- Bristol1,710 ft
- Walnut Hill1,700 ft
- Biltmore1,660 ft
- Blountville1,650 ft
- Orebank1,530 ft
- Watauga1,520 ft
- Bluff City1,500 ft
- Bloomingdale1,460 ft
- Mendota, VA1,440 ft
- Hiltons, VA1,370 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee37th highest of 504
- Towns in Sullivan County2nd highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Unaka Mountain5,170 ft
- The Bald4,650 ft
- Brumley Mountain4,210 ft
- Pinnacle Mountain3,520 ft
- Chimneytop Mountain3,114 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,460 ft at 36.5382° N, 82.2679° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Walnut Hill is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.