Junction City, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,200 ft 365 m1,140 ft 345 m1,110 ft 340 m1,050 ft 320 m990 ft 300 m960 ft 295 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.
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- 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
Junction City sits at about 990 ft (305 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
990 ft 305 m
most residents: 980–1,010 ft
Lowest
960 ft 295 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,200 ft 365 m
on the west side
Average
1,000 ft 305 m
all land inside city limits
Junction City spans about 240 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 | 990 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 960 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Junction City | 990 ft300 m |
| Airport (DVK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.4 mi southeast of the city limits | 1,021 ft311 m |
| Average of all land | 1,000 ft305 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Boyle and Lincoln counties, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 2,329 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.0 sq mi
- Density
- 1,161 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.5867° N, 84.7938° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Dix River → Kentucky River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Stuart Powell Field (DVK) 1,021 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 40422 40440
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- McKinney1,030 ft
- Hustonville1,000 ft
- Lancaster1,000 ft
- Junction City990 ft
- Danville960 ft
- Stanford950 ft
- Crab Orchard940 ft
- Burgin890 ft
- Perryville890 ft
- Harrodsburg880 ft
- High Bridge850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky58th highest of 552
- Towns in Boyle Countyhighest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Persimmon Knob1,350 ft
- Pine Knob, Boyle County1,340 ft
- Berger Knob1,330 ft
- Catholic Knob1,330 ft
- Pleasant Hill, Lincoln County1,080 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. All public domain.