Georgetown, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
960 ft 295 m910 ft 280 m890 ft 270 m840 ft 255 m790 ft 240 m770 ft 235 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Georgetown 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: 820–900 ft
Lowest
770 ft 235 m
on the northwest side
Highest
960 ft 295 m
on the north side
Average
870 ft 265 m
all land inside city limits
Georgetown spans about 190 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 north side | 960 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 770 ft235 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Georgetown | 850 ft260 m |
| Airport (LEX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.9 mi south of the city limits | 980 ft299 m |
| Average of all land | 870 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Scott County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 40,518 2024 est.
- Land area
- 18.1 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,243 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.2098° N, 84.5588° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- North Elkhorn Creek → Kentucky River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Blue Grass (LEX) 980 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 40324
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lexington-Fayette980 ft
- Corinth960 ft
- Keene920 ft
- Versailles910 ft
- Sadieville880 ft
- Georgetown870 ft
- Paris860 ft
- Midway840 ft
- Stamping Ground830 ft
- Cynthiana780 ft
- Frankfort750 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky124th highest of 552
- Towns in Scott County2nd highest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sugar Hill930 ft
- Locust Hill, Franklin County890 ft
- The Backbone860 ft
- Hickman Hill850 ft
- Poplar Hill825 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.