Caneyville, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
640 ft 195 m600 ft 180 m570 ft 175 m530 ft 160 m480 ft 145 m460 ft 140 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
Caneyville sits at about 550 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
550 ft 165 m
most residents: 490–610 ft
Lowest
460 ft 140 m
on the west side
Highest
640 ft 195 m
on the southwest side
Average
530 ft 160 m
all land inside city limits
Caneyville spans about 180 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 | 550 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 640 ft195 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 460 ft140 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Caneyville | 500 ft150 m |
| Average of all land | 530 ft160 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Grayson County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 536 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 325 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.4242° N, 86.4883° 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
- 42721
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Big Clifty750 ft
- Leitchfield730 ft
- Clarkson720 ft
- Brownsville580 ft
- Rosine570 ft
- Caneyville550 ft
- Morgantown520 ft
- Fordsville500 ft
- Woodbury460 ft
- Beaver Dam430 ft
- Hartford410 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky369th highest of 552
- Towns in Grayson Countylowest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hoover Hill, Grayson County860 ft
- Jones Hill820 ft
- Pine Knob, Grayson County770 ft
- Bald Point730 ft
- Ball Knob, Grayson County680 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.