Jackson County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,630 ft 495 m1,380 ft 420 m1,260 ft 385 m1,010 ft 310 m770 ft 235 m650 ft 195 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
Jackson County averages about 1,220 ft (375 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 650 ft on the north side to 1,630 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
1,220 ft 375 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,630 ft 495 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
650 ft 195 m
on the north side
Jackson County spans about 980 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 | 1,220 ft375 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 1,630 ft495 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 650 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
23 mi south to north through Annville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 13,358 2024 est.
- Land area
- 345.2 sq mi + 1.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 39 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian 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
- Jackson County1,220 ft
- Clay County1,200 ft
- Rockcastle County1,160 ft
- Laurel County1,160 ft
- Owsley County1,050 ft
- Lee County960 ft
- Estill County910 ft
- Madison County900 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky9th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States1,089th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Croley Mountain1,590 ft
- Bighill Mountain1,580 ft
- Loam Hill1,510 ft
- Yates Knob1,380 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.
- 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.