Daviess County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
670 ft 205 m590 ft 180 m550 ft 170 m470 ft 145 m390 ft 120 m350 ft 110 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
Daviess County averages about 420 ft (130 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 350 ft on the west side to 670 ft on the east side.
Average elevation
420 ft 130 m
all land inside the county
Highest
670 ft 205 m
on the east side
Lowest
350 ft 110 m
on the west side
Daviess County spans about 320 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 | 420 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the east side | 670 ft205 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 350 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
25 mi west to east through Owensboro.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 104,457 2024 est.
- Land area
- 458.4 sq mi + 18.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 228 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
- Hancock County500 ft
- Ohio County480 ft
- Warrick County, IN440 ft
- Spencer County, IN430 ft
- Daviess County420 ft
- McLean County410 ft
- Henderson County400 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky110th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States2,441st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Barnetts Knob590 ft
- Iron Ore Hill, Daviess County570 ft
- Indian Hill, Daviess County560 ft
- Oglesby Hill550 ft
- Nation Hill, Daviess County550 ft
All 17 towns in Daviess County by typical elevation
- Knottsville510 ft
- Whitesville490 ft
- Pleasant Ridge partly480 ft
- West Louisville450 ft
- Panther450 ft
- Philpot450 ft
- Utica440 ft
- Yelvington430 ft
- St. Joseph420 ft
- Masonville420 ft
- Thruston410 ft
- Owensboro400 ft
- Sorgho400 ft
- Curdsville390 ft
- Maceo390 ft
- Stanley390 ft
- Moseleyville370 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.
- 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.