Covington, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
910 ft 275 m800 ft 245 m740 ft 225 m630 ft 195 m520 ft 160 m470 ft 145 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
Covington sits at about 530 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
530 ft 160 m
most residents: 500–820 ft
Lowest
470 ft 145 m
on the northwest side
Highest
910 ft 275 m
on the south side
Average
660 ft 200 m
all land inside city limits
Covington spans about 440 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 | 530 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 910 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 470 ft145 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Covington | 510 ft155 m |
| Airport (CVG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.4 mi west of the city limits | 896 ft273 m |
| Average of all land | 660 ft200 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 41,611 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.2 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,160 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.0837° N, 84.5086° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG) 896 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 41011 41014 41015 41017
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fort Wright820 ft
- Park Hills800 ft
- Cincinnati, OH730 ft
- Wilder730 ft
- Southgate700 ft
- Woodlawn600 ft
- Kenton Vale600 ft
- Bellevue550 ft
- Covington530 ft
- Newport520 ft
- Ludlow520 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky392nd highest of 552
- Towns in Kenton County16th highest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Johns Hill910 ft
- Visalia Hill890 ft
- Orchard Hill870 ft
- Pye Hill860 ft
- Indian Hill, Boone County800 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. All public domain.