Elkhorn City, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,120 ft 645 m1,770 ft 540 m1,590 ft 485 m1,240 ft 380 m900 ft 275 m720 ft 220 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
Elkhorn City sits at about 870 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
870 ft 265 m
most residents: 810–1,500 ft
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the northwest side
Highest
2,120 ft 645 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,330 ft 405 m
all land inside city limits
Elkhorn City spans about 1,400 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 | 870 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 2,120 ft645 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 720 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Elkhorn City | 790 ft240 m |
| Average of all land | 1,330 ft405 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Pike County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 978 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.8 sq mi
- Density
- 125 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.3040° N, 82.3510° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Levisa Fork → Big Sandy River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 41522
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Clintwood, VA1,870 ft
- Jenkins1,820 ft
- Haysi, VA1,800 ft
- Breaks, VA1,570 ft
- Vansant, VA1,440 ft
- Clinchco, VA1,430 ft
- Grundy, VA1,400 ft
- Virgie980 ft
- Big Rock, VA960 ft
- Elkhorn City870 ft
- Pikeville730 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky123rd highest of 552
- Towns in Pike County5th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Beartown Mountain4,690 ft
- Brumley Mountain4,210 ft
- High Knob4,180 ft
- Black Mountain4,139 ft
- Big A Mountain3,705 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.