White County, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,010 ft 615 m1,670 ft 510 m1,500 ft 455 m1,150 ft 350 m810 ft 245 m630 ft 195 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
White County averages about 1,200 ft (365 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 630 ft on the northwest side to 2,010 ft on Chestnut Mountain.
Average elevation
1,200 ft 365 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,010 ft 615 m
on Chestnut Mountain
Lowest
630 ft 195 m
on the northwest side
White County spans about 1,380 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 | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Chestnut Mountain | 2,010 ft615 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 630 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
23 mi west to east through Sparta.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 29,108 2024 est.
- Land area
- 376.7 sq mi + 2.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 77 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Interior Low Plateaus 65%, Appalachian Plateaus 35%
- 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
- Van Buren County1,580 ft
- White County1,200 ft
- Putnam County1,190 ft
- Warren County1,110 ft
- DeKalb County890 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Tennessee30th highest of 92
- Counties in the United States1,118th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Chestnut Mountain, White County2,010 ft
- Little Chestnut Mountain1,930 ft
- Pine Mountain, White County1,820 ft
- Little Top1,780 ft
- Scott Pinnacle1,780 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. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Highest ground: the single highest 3DEP cell, 2,020 ft at 35.8787° N, 85.3154° W, has no federal (GNIS) summit name within 980 ft (300 m), so the high point shown is the highest of the 25 highest cells with a GNIS summit within 1,640 ft (500 m).
- 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.