Hopkins County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
730 ft 220 m620 ft 190 m570 ft 175 m470 ft 145 m370 ft 110 m310 ft 95 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
Hopkins County averages about 440 ft (135 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 310 ft on the east side to 730 ft on the south side.
Average elevation
440 ft 135 m
all land inside the county
Highest
730 ft 220 m
on the south side
Lowest
310 ft 95 m
on the east side
Hopkins County spans about 420 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 | 440 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the south side | 730 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 310 ft95 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
25 mi south to north through Madisonville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 45,218 2024 est.
- Land area
- 542.3 sq mi + 12.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 83 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
- Christian County570 ft
- Caldwell County500 ft
- Muhlenberg County480 ft
- Hopkins County440 ft
- Webster County430 ft
- McLean County410 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky107th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States2,409th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Moss Hill630 ft
- Cat Hill600 ft
- Nickson Hill600 ft
- Cedar Hill, Hopkins County590 ft
- Balls Hill590 ft
All 10 towns in Hopkins County by typical elevation
- St. Charles500 ft
- Madisonville460 ft
- Earlington450 ft
- Mortons Gap450 ft
- Manitou440 ft
- Hanson440 ft
- Dawson Springs430 ft
- White Plains430 ft
- Nortonville420 ft
- Nebo400 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. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 300 ft at 37.2960° N, 87.5943° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.