Columbia, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
930 ft 285 m860 ft 265 m830 ft 255 m760 ft 235 m700 ft 215 m660 ft 205 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
Columbia sits at about 790 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
790 ft 240 m
most residents: 710–820 ft
Lowest
660 ft 205 m
on the north side
Highest
930 ft 285 m
on the north side
Average
780 ft 235 m
all land inside city limits
Columbia spans about 270 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 | 790 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 930 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 660 ft205 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Columbia | 750 ft230 m |
| Average of all land | 780 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Adair County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 4,685 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.9 sq mi
- Density
- 962 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.1028° N, 85.3064° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Russell Creek → Green River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 42728
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Russell Springs1,070 ft
- Jamestown970 ft
- Summer Shade910 ft
- Edmonton830 ft
- Campbellsville830 ft
- Liberty820 ft
- Columbia790 ft
- Summersville780 ft
- Marrowbone730 ft
- Greensburg650 ft
- Burkesville600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky171st highest of 552
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Society Hill1,040 ft
- East Fork Hill980 ft
- Mount Matney910 ft
- Dug Hill, Taylor County880 ft
- Green River Hill830 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.