Shelby County, Tennessee
Shelby County covers 753 square miles of land. Below is what the Isopleth API returned at the Census Bureau's interior point for the county (35.18455, -89.89461) on 2026-10-29. The ground sits at 76 m (248 ft) on a 0.2° slope, the mapped soil is moderately well drained, it is outside a mapped FEMA floodplain, the nearest 69 kV+ substation is 840 m away and a major road is 157 m away. Values describe that one point, not the whole county; look up your own address or coordinates for your site.
Sample point values
| field | value | source |
|---|---|---|
| FEMA flood zone | X | FEMA_NFHL Federal Emergency Management Agencyvintage 47157C_STUDY1 |
| Inside a mapped floodplain | No | FEMA_NFHL Federal Emergency Management Agencyvintage 47157C_STUDY1 |
| Wildfire, annual frequency | 0.0000100 events a year | FEMA_NRI Federal Emergency Management Agencyvintage December 2025 |
| Tornado, annual frequency | 0.0018 events a year | FEMA_NRI Federal Emergency Management Agencyvintage December 2025 |
| Hail, annual frequency | 3.0 events a year | FEMA_NRI Federal Emergency Management Agencyvintage December 2025 |
| Current drought category | D3 | USDM_CURRENT The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Map courtesy of NDMC.vintage US Drought Monitor map valid 20261020 |
| On a mapped wetland | No | USFWS_NWI U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
| Nearest mapped wetland | 186 m | USFWS_NWI U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
| Elevation | 76 m (248 ft) | USGS_3DEP_COG U.S. Geological Surveyvintage 3DEP 1/3 arc-second seamless DEM |
| Slope | 0.2° | USGS_3DEP_COG U.S. Geological Survey |
| Soil drainage | Moderately well drained | USDA_SSURGO U.S. Department of Agriculturevintage SSURGO TN157 mukey 567293 |
| Soil hydrologic group | C/D | USDA_SSURGO U.S. Department of Agriculturevintage SSURGO TN157 mukey 567293 |
| Farmland class | Prime | USDA_SSURGO U.S. Department of Agriculturevintage SSURGO TN157 mukey 567293 |
| Land use | Developed | USFS_LCMS USDA Forest Servicevintage USFS LCMS CONUS 2025 annual (30 m) |
| Crop or cover (CDL) | Developed/High Intensity | USDA_CDL U.S. Department of Agriculturevintage USDA CDL 2025 (30 m) |
| Tree canopy | 1% | USFS_NLCD_TCC USDA Forest Servicevintage USFS/MRLC NLCD Tree Canopy Cover (latest annual, 30 m) |
| On protected land (PAD-US) | No | PAD_US USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US)vintage USGS PAD-US 4.1 (Protection Mechanism Category combined layer) |
| Surface manager | Private or unknown | BLM_SMA Bureau of Land Management |
| Annual precipitation (normal) | 1,406 mm (55 in) | NOAA_NCEI_NORMALS_GRIDDED National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationvintage NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 gridded (nClimGrid) monthly normals v1.0, annual layers |
| Days above 32 °C a year | 65 days | NOAA_NCEI_NCLIMGRID_DAILY National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationvintage NOAA nClimGrid-Daily v1.0 (scaled), 1991-2020 mean annual day counts |
| Solar resource (GHI) | 4.50 kWh/m²/day | JRC_PVGIS_NSRDB See source_url |
| Mean wind speed at 100 m | 6.3 m/s | NREL_WIND_TOOLKIT NREL WIND Toolkit (Draxl et al., 2015)vintage NREL WIND Toolkit CONUS v1.0.0, 2007-2013 (5-min, 2 km) |
| Wind capacity factor | 35% | NREL_REV_LANDBASED_WIND_SC_2024 NREL reV supply curves, Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)vintage NREL reV land-based wind SC 2024 (Open access) |
| Nearest transmission line | 104 m | EIA_ATLAS U.S. Energy Information Administration |
| Nearest substation (69 kV+) | 840 m | EIA_POWER U.S. Energy Information Administration |
| Nearest gas pipeline | 5.5 km (3.4 mi) | EIA_ATLAS U.S. Energy Information Administration |
| Electric utility | CITY OF WEST MEMPHIS - (AR) | EIA_POWER U.S. Energy Information Administrationvintage HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories |
| In a public water service area | Yes | EPA_CWS_SERVICE_AREAS U.S. Environmental Protection Agencyvintage V3.0 (2026-03-17) |
| Depth to water, nearest monitored well | 3.8 m (12 ft) | USGS_NWIS_OGC U.S. Geological Surveyvintage USGS Water Data discrete groundwater-level field measurements (latest per well) |
| Nearest major road | 157 m | OVERTURE_TRANSPORTATION © Overture Maps Foundation, © OpenStreetMap contributorsvintage 2026-10-21.0 |
| Nearest FCC antenna structure | 774 m | FCC_ASR Federal Communications Commissionvintage FCC ASR weekly extract Sun Oct 25 06:21:42 EDT 2026 |
| Nearest fire station | 1.0 km (0.7 mi) | OVERTURE_PLACES © Overture Maps Foundationvintage 2026-10-21.0 |
| Nearest hospital | 3.2 km (2.0 mi) | OVERTURE_PLACES © Overture Maps Foundationvintage 2026-10-21.0 |
| Nearest school | 680 m | OVERTURE_PLACES © Overture Maps Foundationvintage 2026-10-21.0 |
| In an Opportunity Zone | No | HUD_OPPORTUNITY_ZONES U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development |
Fields with no data at this point are left out. See the field catalog for all 351 fields.
Parcels
Parcel records: not offered in Tennessee. Comptroller's public layer says it is not intended for commercial use (bulk download recommended for commercial purposes). Every point field on this page still works at any coordinate in Tennessee; see parcel coverage for the 35 states plus DC we cover.
Look up your own site
curl https://api.isopleth.dev/v1/fetch -H "Authorization: Bearer $ISOPLETH_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"lat": 35.184553, "lng": -89.894612, "preset": "site_selection"}'
Or ask your assistant through the MCP server: “Using Isopleth, check flood zone, wetlands, soils and distance to power for [your address in Shelby County, Tennessee].”
Buying land here? Check the Land’s Shelby County page shows what its $29 report checks, built on these same Isopleth fields.
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