Brodhead, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,210 ft 370 m1,140 ft 345 m1,100 ft 335 m1,030 ft 315 m950 ft 290 m920 ft 280 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
Brodhead sits at about 970 ft (295 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
970 ft 295 m
most residents: 940–1,040 ft
Lowest
920 ft 280 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,210 ft 370 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,010 ft 305 m
all land inside city limits
Brodhead spans about 290 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 | 970 ft295 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 920 ft280 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Brodhead | 940 ft285 m |
| Average of all land | 1,010 ft305 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 1,112 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.8 sq mi
- Density
- 622 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.4042° N, 84.4138° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Dix River → Kentucky River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 40409
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- East Bernstadt1,220 ft
- Eubank1,190 ft
- Mount Vernon1,170 ft
- Science Hill1,100 ft
- McKinney1,030 ft
- Lancaster1,000 ft
- Brodhead970 ft
- Berea960 ft
- Stanford950 ft
- Crab Orchard940 ft
- Livingston930 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky64th highest of 552
- Towns in Rockcastle County2nd highest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cable Knob1,540 ft
- Purcell Knob, Rockcastle County1,500 ft
- Lear Knob1,450 ft
- McCall Knob1,450 ft
- Indian Knob, Rockcastle County1,260 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.