Harrodsburg, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
980 ft 295 m930 ft 285 m910 ft 280 m870 ft 265 m830 ft 250 m810 ft 245 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Harrodsburg sits at about 880 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
880 ft 270 m
most residents: 840–900 ft
Lowest
810 ft 245 m
on the northwest side
Highest
980 ft 295 m
on the southeast side
Average
870 ft 265 m
all land inside city limits
Harrodsburg spans about 170 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 | 880 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 980 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 810 ft245 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Harrodsburg | 850 ft260 m |
| Average of all land | 870 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Mercer County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 9,491 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.4 sq mi
- Density
- 1,008 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.7623° N, 84.8433° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Salt River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 40330
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Junction City990 ft
- Danville960 ft
- Keene920 ft
- Wilmore900 ft
- Burgin890 ft
- Perryville890 ft
- Harrodsburg880 ft
- Mackville880 ft
- Willisburg850 ft
- High Bridge850 ft
- Salvisa820 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky116th highest of 552
- Towns in Mercer County2nd highest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Parksville Knob1,360 ft
- Persimmon Knob1,350 ft
- Pine Knob, Boyle County1,340 ft
- Burdette Knob1,110 ft
- Laurel Hill, Mercer County960 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.