Big Clifty, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
810 ft 250 m760 ft 230 m730 ft 225 m680 ft 210 m630 ft 190 m600 ft 185 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Big Clifty sits at about 750 ft (230 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
750 ft 230 m
most residents: 720–760 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the northwest side
Highest
810 ft 250 m
on the northeast side
Average
740 ft 225 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Big Clifty spans about 210 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 | 750 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 810 ft250 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 600 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Big Clifty | 750 ft230 m |
| Average of all land | 740 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Grayson County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 367 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.4 sq mi
- Density
- 255 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.5456° N, 86.1536° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Rough River → Green River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 42712
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rineyville790 ft
- Elizabethtown780 ft
- Big Clifty750 ft
- Upton740 ft
- Leitchfield730 ft
- Sonora720 ft
- Cecilia720 ft
- Clarkson720 ft
- Vine Grove710 ft
- Bonnieville660 ft
- Caneyville550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky199th highest of 552
- Towns in Grayson Countyhighest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Buzzard Roost, Grayson County961 ft
- Layman Knob900 ft
- Bland Knobs830 ft
- Double S Hill690 ft
- Confederate Hill690 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Big Clifty is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.