Jackson, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,270 ft 385 m1,120 ft 340 m1,050 ft 320 m910 ft 280 m770 ft 235 m700 ft 215 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
Jackson sits at about 770 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
770 ft 235 m
most residents: 730–900 ft
Lowest
700 ft 215 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,270 ft 385 m
on Picnic Hill
Average
820 ft 250 m
all land inside city limits
Jackson spans about 570 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 | 770 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Picnic Hill | 1,270 ft385 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 700 ft215 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Jackson | 780 ft235 m |
| Airport (JKL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.2 mi northeast of the city limits | 1,381 ft421 m |
| Average of all land | 820 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Breathitt County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 2,101 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.5 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 838 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.5531° N, 83.3835° 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
- Airport
- Julian Carroll (JKL) 1,381 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 41339
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Campton1,020 ft
- Hazel Green990 ft
- Beattyville970 ft
- Hazard970 ft
- Ezel930 ft
- Combs900 ft
- Salyersville860 ft
- Buckhorn820 ft
- Oneida790 ft
- Jackson770 ft
- Booneville730 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky191st highest of 552
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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.