Hickory, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
490 ft 150 m470 ft 145 m460 ft 140 m440 ft 135 m420 ft 130 m410 ft 125 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Hickory sits at about 430 ft (130 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
430 ft 130 m
most residents: 420–460 ft
Lowest
410 ft 125 m
on the east side
Highest
490 ft 150 m
on the southwest side
Average
440 ft 135 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Hickory spans about 80 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 | 430 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 490 ft150 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 410 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hickory | 430 ft130 m |
| Airport (M25) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.2 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 522 ft159 m |
| Average of all land | 440 ft135 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Graves County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 235 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 264 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.8226° N, 88.6475° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Mayfield Creek → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Mayfield Graves County (M25) 522 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 42066
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Farmington540 ft
- Sedalia510 ft
- Mayfield490 ft
- Wingo490 ft
- Lowes460 ft
- Massac440 ft
- Fancy Farm440 ft
- Hickory430 ft
- Pryorsburg420 ft
- Symsonia400 ft
- Lovelaceville370 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky495th highest of 552
- Towns in Graves County7th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stillhouse Hill540 ft
- Danner Hill520 ft
- Potato Hill, Graves County480 ft
- Waller Hill480 ft
- Surrett Hill390 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Hickory is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.