Fort Knox, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
900 ft 275 m780 ft 240 m720 ft 220 m600 ft 185 m480 ft 145 m420 ft 125 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Fort Knox sits at about 710 ft (220 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
710 ft 220 m
most residents: 630–740 ft
Lowest
420 ft 125 m
on the east side
Highest
900 ft 275 m
on Snow Mountain
Average
690 ft 210 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Fort Knox spans about 480 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 | 710 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Snow Mountain | 900 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 420 ft125 m |
| Average of all land | 690 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.2 mi west to east through the middle of Fort Knox.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Hardin and Meade counties, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 7,742 2020 Census
- Land area
- 20.3 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 382 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.8960° N, 85.9619° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 40121
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rineyville790 ft
- Radcliff760 ft
- Muldraugh730 ft
- Fort Knox710 ft
- Vine Grove710 ft
- Taylor Township, Harrison County, IN680 ft
- Laconia, IN660 ft
- Boone Township, Harrison County, IN660 ft
- Ekron650 ft
- Doe Valley590 ft
- West Point440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky226th highest of 552
- Towns in Hardin County7th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Indian Hill, Meade County900 ft
- Muir Hill780 ft
- Hooker Mountain760 ft
- Canby Hill750 ft
- Scott Mountain740 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Fort Knox is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.