Jenkins, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,970 ft 905 m2,590 ft 790 m2,390 ft 730 m2,010 ft 610 m1,620 ft 495 m1,430 ft 435 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
Jenkins sits at about 1,820 ft (555 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,820 ft 555 m
most residents: 1,500–2,070 ft
Lowest
1,430 ft 435 m
on the northeast side
Highest
2,970 ft 905 m
on the east side
Average
1,910 ft 580 m
all land inside city limits
Jenkins spans about 1,540 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 | 1,820 ft555 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 2,970 ft905 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,430 ft435 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Jenkins | 1,540 ft470 m |
| Average of all land | 1,910 ft580 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 1,757 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.8 sq mi
- Density
- 199 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.1734° N, 82.6310° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Levisa Fork → Big Sandy River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 41517 41537
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- McRoberts1,880 ft
- Clintwood, VA1,870 ft
- Payne Gap1,840 ft
- Jenkins1,820 ft
- Pound, VA1,710 ft
- Fleming-Neon1,330 ft
- Wheelwright1,290 ft
- Millstone1,260 ft
- Mayking1,220 ft
- Whitesburg1,170 ft
- Virgie980 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky3rd highest of 552
- Towns in Letcher County3rd highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Knob4,180 ft
- Black Mountain4,139 ft
- Big A Mountain3,705 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).
- 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, 1,420 ft at 37.1951° N, 82.5921° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.