Christian County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
910 ft 275 m750 ft 230 m670 ft 205 m520 ft 160 m370 ft 110 m290 ft 90 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
Christian County averages about 570 ft (175 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 290 ft on the south side to 910 ft on the east side.
Average elevation
570 ft 175 m
all land inside the county
Highest
910 ft 275 m
on the east side
Lowest
290 ft 90 m
on the south side
Christian County spans about 620 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 | 570 ft175 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the east side | 910 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 290 ft90 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
34 mi south to north through Hopkinsville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 71,006 2024 est.
- Land area
- 717.8 sq mi + 6.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 99 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
- Todd County620 ft
- Christian County570 ft
- Montgomery County, TN540 ft
- Stewart County, TN520 ft
- Caldwell County500 ft
- Trigg County500 ft
- Muhlenberg County480 ft
- Hopkins County440 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky96th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States2,254th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Pine Knob, Christian County880 ft
- Ball Knob, Christian County710 ft
- Goblers Knob660 ft
- Red Hill, Christian County510 ft
- Rich Hill490 ft
All 8 towns in Christian County by typical elevation
- Fairview640 ft
- Crofton600 ft
- Pembroke580 ft
- Fort Campbell North550 ft
- Oak Grove550 ft
- Hopkinsville550 ft
- LaFayette540 ft
- Gracey510 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. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 240 ft at 36.8154° N, 87.4665° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.