Jessamine County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,070 ft 325 m930 ft 285 m860 ft 260 m720 ft 220 m580 ft 175 m510 ft 155 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
Jessamine County averages about 900 ft (275 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 510 ft on the west side to 1,070 ft on the north side.
Average elevation
900 ft 275 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the north side
Lowest
510 ft 155 m
on the west side
Jessamine County spans about 560 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 | 900 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the north side | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 510 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
17 mi south to north through Nicholasville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 56,495 2024 est.
- Land area
- 172.1 sq mi + 2.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 328 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- 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
- Fayette County950 ft
- Garrard County930 ft
- Madison County900 ft
- Jessamine County900 ft
- Mercer County840 ft
- Woodford County830 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky40th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States1,606th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Catnip Hill1,030 ft
- Meridian Hill1,020 ft
- Pleasant Hill, Jessamine County990 ft
All 4 towns in Jessamine County by typical elevation
- Nicholasville940 ft
- Keene920 ft
- Wilmore900 ft
- High Bridge850 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.