Graves County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
610 ft 185 m540 ft 165 m500 ft 155 m430 ft 130 m360 ft 110 m330 ft 100 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Graves County averages about 470 ft (140 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 330 ft on the north side to 610 ft near the middle.
Average elevation
470 ft 140 m
all land inside the county
Highest
610 ft 185 m
near the middle
Lowest
330 ft 100 m
on the north side
Graves County spans about 280 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 470 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, near the middle | 610 ft185 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 330 ft100 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
30 mi south to north through Mayfield.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 36,821 2024 est.
- Land area
- 551.8 sq mi + 5.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 67 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Calloway County500 ft
- Henry County, TN470 ft
- Graves County470 ft
- Marshall County420 ft
- Weakley County, TN390 ft
- Carlisle County390 ft
- McCracken County380 ft
- Hickman County370 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky105th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States2,379th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Potato Hill, Graves County480 ft
- Surrett Hill390 ft
All 10 towns in Graves County by typical elevation
- Farmington540 ft
- Sedalia510 ft
- Mayfield490 ft
- Wingo490 ft
- Lowes460 ft
- Fancy Farm440 ft
- Hickory430 ft
- Pryorsburg420 ft
- Symsonia400 ft
- Water Valley390 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.