Anderson County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

940 ft 285 m830 ft 250 m770 ft 235 m650 ft 200 m540 ft 165 m480 ft 145 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Anderson County averages about 780 ft (240 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 480 ft on the northeast side to 940 ft on the northwest side.

Average elevation

780 ft 240 m

all land inside the county

Highest

940 ft 285 m

on the northwest side

Lowest

480 ft 145 m

on the northeast side

Anderson County spans about 460 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	780 ft240 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side	940 ft285 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side	480 ft145 m

Elevation profile, west to east

14 mi west to east through Lawrenceburg.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Kentucky, United States
Population: 24,883 2024 est.
Land area: 202.3 sq mi + 2.0 sq mi water
Density: 123 per sq mi
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Interior Low Plateaus
Drains to: Gulf of America

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Mercer County840 ft
Woodford County830 ft
Shelby County790 ft
Anderson County780 ft
Washington County770 ft
Franklin County740 ft
Spencer County660 ft
Nelson County650 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Kentucky66th highest of 119
Counties in the United States1,857th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

The Mound870 ft
Driscol Hill770 ft

The one town in Anderson County

Lawrenceburg810 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.
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.