Johnson County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,500 ft 460 m1,270 ft 385 m1,150 ft 350 m920 ft 280 m690 ft 210 m570 ft 175 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
Johnson County averages about 900 ft (275 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 570 ft on the northeast side to 1,500 ft on Stuffley Knob.
Average elevation
900 ft 275 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,500 ft 460 m
on Stuffley Knob
Lowest
570 ft 175 m
on the northeast side
Johnson County spans about 930 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 Stuffley Knob (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 1,500 ft460 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 570 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
18 mi west to east through Paintsville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 22,098 2024 est.
- Land area
- 262.0 sq mi + 2.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 84 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
- Magoffin County1,090 ft
- Floyd County1,060 ft
- Morgan County990 ft
- Martin County970 ft
- Johnson County900 ft
- Lawrence County830 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky38th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States1,598th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Stuffley Knob1,500 ft
- Bettys Knob1,250 ft
- Locust Knob, Johnson County1,210 ft
- Potato Knob, Johnson County1,170 ft
- Lettered Rocks1,140 ft
All 3 towns in Johnson County by typical elevation
- Van Lear780 ft
- West Van Lear620 ft
- Paintsville620 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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.