Hardin County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,010 ft 310 m860 ft 260 m780 ft 235 m620 ft 190 m470 ft 140 m390 ft 120 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
Hardin County averages about 720 ft (220 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 390 ft on the north side to 1,012 ft on Blueball Hill.
Average elevation
720 ft 220 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,012 ft 308 m
on Blueball Hill
Lowest
390 ft 120 m
on the north side
Hardin County spans about 620 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 | 720 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Blueball Hill (NGS survey height) | 1,012 ft308 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 390 ft120 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
27 mi south to north through Elizabethtown.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 112,826 2024 est.
- Land area
- 623.9 sq mi + 6.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 181 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Larue County780 ft
- Hardin County720 ft
- Hart County710 ft
- Harrison County, IN690 ft
- Meade County650 ft
- Nelson County650 ft
- Grayson County640 ft
- Breckinridge County630 ft
- Bullitt County580 ft
- Jefferson County570 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky77th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States1,995th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Blueball Hill1,012 ft
- Gross Hill960 ft
- Jacobs Knob950 ft
- Jim Moore Hill930 ft
- Wilmoth Hill910 ft
All 9 towns in Hardin County by typical elevation
- Rineyville790 ft
- Elizabethtown780 ft
- Radcliff760 ft
- Upton740 ft
- Sonora720 ft
- Cecilia720 ft
- Fort Knox710 ft
- Vine Grove710 ft
- West Point440 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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.