Ashland, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
890 ft 270 m800 ft 245 m750 ft 230 m660 ft 200 m560 ft 170 m520 ft 155 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
Ashland sits at about 660 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
660 ft 200 m
most residents: 560–710 ft
Lowest
520 ft 155 m
on the east side
Highest
890 ft 270 m
on the southwest side
Average
650 ft 195 m
all land inside city limits
Ashland spans about 370 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 | 660 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 890 ft270 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 520 ft155 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ashland | 550 ft170 m |
| Airport (HTS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.5 mi southeast of the city limits | 828 ft252 m |
| Average of all land | 650 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Boyd County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 21,066 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.7 sq mi
- Density
- 1,962 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.4784° N, 82.6379° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Tri-State/Milton J Ferguson Field (HTS) 828 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 41101 41102
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ironville690 ft
- Flatwoods680 ft
- Ashland660 ft
- Bellefonte650 ft
- Russell650 ft
- Westwood630 ft
- South Point, OH570 ft
- Perry Township, Lawrence County, OH570 ft
- Coal Grove, OH570 ft
- Upper Township, OH550 ft
- Ironton, OH550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky261st highest of 552
- Towns in Boyd County3rd highest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hunts Knob1,080 ft
- High Knob, Boyd County1,030 ft
- Star Hill1,010 ft
- Gartrell Hill680 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.