Crittenden County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
840 ft 255 m710 ft 215 m640 ft 195 m520 ft 155 m390 ft 120 m320 ft 100 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
Crittenden County averages about 480 ft (145 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 320 ft on the southwest side to 840 ft on Wilson Hill.
Average elevation
480 ft 145 m
all land inside the county
Highest
840 ft 255 m
on Wilson Hill
Lowest
320 ft 100 m
on the southwest side
Crittenden County spans about 520 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 | 480 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Wilson Hill (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 840 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 320 ft100 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
18 mi south to north through Marion.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 8,982 2024 est.
- Land area
- 359.6 sq mi + 11.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 25 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
- Caldwell County500 ft
- Crittenden County480 ft
- Hardin County, IL480 ft
- Lyon County460 ft
- Livingston County430 ft
- Webster County430 ft
- Union County400 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky103rd highest of 119
- Counties in the United States2,355th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Wilson Hill, Crittenden County840 ft
- Hardin Knob820 ft
- Jackson Knob, Crittenden County810 ft
- Crayne Knob810 ft
- Obie Mound740 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.