Ghent, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
650 ft 200 m600 ft 180 m570 ft 175 m510 ft 155 m460 ft 140 m430 ft 130 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
Ghent sits at about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
490 ft 150 m
most residents: 460–490 ft
Lowest
430 ft 130 m
on the north side
Highest
650 ft 200 m
on the southeast side
Average
490 ft 150 m
all land inside city limits
Ghent spans about 220 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 | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 650 ft200 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 430 ft130 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ghent | 490 ft150 m |
| Airport (8GK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.5 mi southeast of the city limits | 830 ft253 m |
| Average of all land | 490 ft150 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Carroll County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 369 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 519 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.7376° N, 85.0583° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Gallatin County (8GK) 830 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 41045
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Craig Township, IN760 ft
- York Township, Switzerland County, IN740 ft
- Jefferson Township, Switzerland County, IN490 ft
- Ghent490 ft
- Vevay, IN480 ft
- Carrollton480 ft
- Sanders480 ft
- Lamb, IN480 ft
- Florence, IN480 ft
- Worthville460 ft
- Prestonville460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky433rd highest of 552
- Towns in Carroll Countyhighest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Eagle Hill890 ft
- Mount Hill860 ft
- Johnson Hill850 ft
- Bunker Hill, Trimble County680 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. All public domain.