Albany, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,040 ft 315 m990 ft 300 m970 ft 295 m920 ft 280 m860 ft 265 m840 ft 255 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Albany sits at about 950 ft (290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
950 ft 290 m
most residents: 900–990 ft
Lowest
840 ft 255 m
on the south side
Highest
1,040 ft 315 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
950 ft 290 m
all land inside city limits
Albany spans about 200 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 | 950 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 840 ft255 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Albany | 960 ft290 m |
| Average of all land | 950 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Clinton County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 1,744 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.3 sq mi
- Density
- 767 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.6909° N, 85.1347° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Cumberland River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 42602
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Jamestown, TN1,730 ft
- Allardt, TN1,650 ft
- Russell Springs1,070 ft
- Livingston, TN1,040 ft
- Byrdstown, TN1,010 ft
- Jamestown970 ft
- Albany950 ft
- Monticello940 ft
- Marrowbone730 ft
- Burkesville600 ft
- Celina, TN550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky74th highest of 552
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cross Mountain3,535 ft
- Buffalo Mountain3,380 ft
- Stallion Mountain3,340 ft
- Lone Mountain2,530 ft
- Albany Rock1,700 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.