Butler County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
810 ft 245 m700 ft 215 m650 ft 200 m540 ft 165 m440 ft 135 m390 ft 115 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
Butler County averages about 510 ft (155 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 390 ft on the west side to 810 ft on Peach Orchard Knob.
Average elevation
510 ft 155 m
all land inside the county
Highest
810 ft 245 m
on Peach Orchard Knob
Lowest
390 ft 115 m
on the west side
Butler County spans about 420 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 | 510 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Peach Orchard Knob (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 810 ft245 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 390 ft115 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
25 mi west to east through Morgantown.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 12,551 2024 est.
- Land area
- 426.1 sq mi + 5.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 29 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Grayson County640 ft
- Edmonson County640 ft
- Logan County600 ft
- Warren County570 ft
- Butler County510 ft
- Ohio County480 ft
- Muhlenberg County480 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky97th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States2,309th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Peach Orchard Knob, Butler County810 ft
- Ragland Hill770 ft
- Hanging Rock, Butler County730 ft
- Bald Point730 ft
- Zion Hill, Butler County720 ft
All 3 towns in Butler County by typical elevation
- Morgantown520 ft
- Woodbury460 ft
- Rochester430 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.