Drakesboro, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
490 ft 150 m470 ft 140 m450 ft 140 m430 ft 130 m400 ft 125 m390 ft 120 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Drakesboro sits at about 440 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
440 ft 135 m
most residents: 420–450 ft
Lowest
390 ft 120 m
on the north side
Highest
490 ft 150 m
on the northwest side
Average
430 ft 130 m
all land inside city limits
Drakesboro spans about 100 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 | 440 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 490 ft150 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 390 ft120 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Drakesboro | 440 ft135 m |
| Airport (M21) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.5 mi west of the city limits | 428 ft130 m |
| Average of all land | 430 ft130 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 473 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 857 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2175° N, 87.0489° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Green River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Muhlenberg County (M21) 428 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 42337
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Dunmor570 ft
- Greenville490 ft
- Beechmont490 ft
- Powderly480 ft
- South Carrollton450 ft
- Cleaton450 ft
- McHenry450 ft
- Rockport450 ft
- Central City440 ft
- Drakesboro440 ft
- Rochester430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky481st highest of 552
- Towns in Muhlenberg Countylowest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Tooley Hill703 ft
- Buck Knob, Muhlenberg County630 ft
- Cherry Hill560 ft
- Airdrie Hill550 ft
- Sandhill540 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.