Glasgow, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
860 ft 265 m790 ft 240 m760 ft 230 m680 ft 210 m610 ft 185 m570 ft 175 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
Glasgow sits at about 750 ft (230 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
750 ft 230 m
most residents: 690–810 ft
Lowest
570 ft 175 m
on the west side
Highest
860 ft 265 m
on the north side
Average
730 ft 225 m
all land inside city limits
Glasgow spans about 290 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 | 750 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 860 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 570 ft175 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Glasgow | 760 ft230 m |
| Airport (GLW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 716 ft218 m |
| Average of all land | 730 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Barren County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 15,388 2024 est.
- Land area
- 16.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 954 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.9959° N, 85.9119° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Green River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Glasgow Municipal (GLW) 716 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 42141
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Summer Shade910 ft
- Edmonton830 ft
- Glasgow750 ft
- Hiseville710 ft
- Hardyville700 ft
- Cave City640 ft
- Horse Cave640 ft
- Park City630 ft
- Smiths Grove630 ft
- Munfordville590 ft
- Oakland580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky198th highest of 552
- Towns in Barren Countyhighest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Prewitts Knob1,060 ft
- Flint Knob980 ft
- Brushy Knob, Barren County960 ft
- Cox Knob, Barren County900 ft
- Matthews Hill800 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.