Grand Rivers, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
510 ft 155 m470 ft 145 m450 ft 140 m410 ft 125 m370 ft 115 m350 ft 105 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
Grand Rivers sits at about 430 ft (130 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
430 ft 130 m
most residents: 390–460 ft
Lowest
350 ft 105 m
on the north side
Highest
510 ft 155 m
on the northwest side
Average
410 ft 125 m
all land inside city limits
Grand Rivers spans about 160 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 | 430 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 510 ft155 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 350 ft105 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Grand Rivers | 390 ft120 m |
| Airport (M34) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.4 mi west of the city limits | 351 ft107 m |
| Average of all land | 410 ft125 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Livingston County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 345 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 162 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.0031° N, 88.2345° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Cumberland River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Kentucky Dam State Park (M34) 351 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 42045
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Eddyville480 ft
- Kuttawa430 ft
- Benton430 ft
- Grand Rivers430 ft
- Hardin410 ft
- Symsonia400 ft
- Reidland390 ft
- Calvert City380 ft
- Smithland360 ft
- Gilbertsville350 ft
- Ledbetter340 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky499th highest of 552
- Towns in Livingston County3rd highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Buzzard Rock, Lyon County540 ft
- Iron Hill520 ft
- Jewel Hill490 ft
- Barricks Hill490 ft
- Trice Hill470 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.