Hart County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
1,160 ft 350 m980 ft 295 m890 ft 270 m700 ft 215 m520 ft 160 m430 ft 130 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
Hart County averages about 710 ft (215 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 430 ft on the southwest side to 1,156 ft on Frenchman Knob.
Average elevation
710 ft 215 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,156 ft 352 m
on Frenchman Knob
Lowest
430 ft 130 m
on the southwest side
Hart County spans about 730 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 | 710 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Frenchman Knob (NGS survey height) | 1,156 ft352 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 430 ft130 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
20 mi south to north through Horse Cave.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 19,923 2024 est.
- Land area
- 412.7 sq mi + 5.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 48 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- 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
- Metcalfe County850 ft
- Larue County780 ft
- Barren County740 ft
- Hardin County720 ft
- Green County720 ft
- Hart County710 ft
- Grayson County640 ft
- Edmonson County640 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky79th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States2,015th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Frenchman Knob1,156 ft
- Maxey Knob, Hart County1,090 ft
- Three Kiln Knob1,080 ft
- Grindstone Knob1,050 ft
- Knox Knob1,040 ft
All 4 towns in Hart County by typical elevation
- Hardyville700 ft
- Bonnieville660 ft
- Horse Cave640 ft
- Munfordville590 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.