Burnside, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,230 ft 375 m1,100 ft 335 m1,030 ft 315 m900 ft 275 m760 ft 235 m700 ft 215 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Burnside sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 820–870 ft
Lowest
700 ft 210 m
near the middle
Highest
1,230 ft 375 m
on the south side
Average
820 ft 250 m
all land inside city limits
Burnside spans about 530 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 700 ft210 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Burnside | 850 ft260 m |
| Airport (SME) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.6 mi north of the city limits | 927 ft283 m |
| Average of all land | 820 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Pulaski County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 718 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.5 sq mi + 6.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 160 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.9890° N, 84.5999° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Cumberland River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lake Cumberland Regional (SME) 927 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 42503 42519 42544
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pine Knot1,380 ft
- Stearns1,320 ft
- Whitley City1,310 ft
- Eubank1,190 ft
- Science Hill1,100 ft
- Russell Springs1,070 ft
- Jamestown970 ft
- Somerset970 ft
- Monticello940 ft
- Ferguson930 ft
- Burnside850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky140th highest of 552
- Towns in Pulaski Countylowest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cross Mountain3,535 ft
- Buffalo Mountain3,380 ft
- Stallion Mountain3,340 ft
- Bryson Mountain3,130 ft
- Stout Knob2,950 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.