Hazard, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,870 ft 570 m1,610 ft 490 m1,480 ft 450 m1,220 ft 370 m960 ft 290 m820 ft 250 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
Hazard sits at about 970 ft (295 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
970 ft 295 m
most residents: 870–1,330 ft
Lowest
820 ft 250 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,870 ft 570 m
on the south side
Average
1,160 ft 355 m
all land inside city limits
Hazard spans about 1,050 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 | 970 ft295 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,870 ft570 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 820 ft250 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hazard | 920 ft280 m |
| Average of all land | 1,160 ft355 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Perry County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 4,808 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.5 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 645 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2495° N, 83.1932° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- North Fork Kentucky River → Kentucky River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 41701
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cumberland1,510 ft
- Pippa Passes1,390 ft
- Hindman1,160 ft
- Blackey1,150 ft
- Vicco1,010 ft
- Hazard970 ft
- Diablock930 ft
- Jeff920 ft
- Hyden910 ft
- Combs900 ft
- Buckhorn820 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky67th highest of 552
- Towns in Perry County2nd highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Knob4,180 ft
- Black Mountain4,139 ft
- White Rocks3,510 ft
- Buzzard Roost3,190 ft
- Stocker Knob2,880 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.