Anchorage, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
770 ft 235 m730 ft 225 m720 ft 220 m690 ft 210 m650 ft 200 m640 ft 195 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Anchorage sits at about 720 ft (220 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
720 ft 220 m
most residents: 690–740 ft
Lowest
640 ft 195 m
on the west side
Highest
760 ft 235 m
on the northeast side
Average
710 ft 215 m
all land inside city limits
Anchorage spans about 120 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 | 720 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 760 ft235 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 640 ft195 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Anchorage | 710 ft215 m |
| Airport (SDF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi southwest of the city limits | 501 ft153 m |
| Average of all land | 710 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 2,538 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.0 sq mi
- Density
- 858 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.2667° N, 85.5330° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Louisville Muhammad Ali International (SDF) 501 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 40223
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Middletown730 ft
- Woodland Hills720 ft
- Anchorage720 ft
- Douglass Hills700 ft
- Sycamore700 ft
- Blue Ridge Manor690 ft
- Hickory Hill680 ft
- Meadow Vale650 ft
- Wildwood650 ft
- Meadowbrook Farm640 ft
- Moorland640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky222nd highest of 552
- Towns in Jefferson County5th highest of 82
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gathright Hill840 ft
- Green Hill, Oldham County790 ft
- Pleasant Hill, Jefferson County770 ft
- Long Run Hill760 ft
- Evergreen Hill730 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.