Bath County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,380 ft 420 m1,180 ft 360 m1,080 ft 330 m890 ft 270 m690 ft 210 m590 ft 180 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bath County averages about 860 ft (260 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 590 ft on the northwest side to 1,380 ft on Tater Knob.
Average elevation
860 ft 260 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,380 ft 420 m
on Tater Knob
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the northwest side
Bath County spans about 790 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 | 860 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Tater Knob (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 1,380 ft420 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 590 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
20 mi south to north through Owingsville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 12,951 2024 est.
- Land area
- 278.0 sq mi + 6.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 47 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Interior Low Plateaus 89%, Appalachian Plateaus 11%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Menifee County1,070 ft
- Rowan County1,000 ft
- Montgomery County930 ft
- Fleming County860 ft
- Bath County860 ft
- Nicholas County850 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky47th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States1,694th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Tater Knob, Bath County1,380 ft
- South Knob1,370 ft
- North Knob1,280 ft
- Mount Olympus1,180 ft
- Alum Knob1,110 ft
All 3 towns in Bath County by typical elevation
- Sharpsburg1,020 ft
- Owingsville960 ft
- Salt Lick660 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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.