Knott County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,350 ft 715 m1,930 ft 590 m1,730 ft 525 m1,310 ft 400 m890 ft 275 m690 ft 210 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
Knott County averages about 1,360 ft (415 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 690 ft on the northeast side to 2,350 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
1,360 ft 415 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,350 ft 715 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
690 ft 210 m
on the northeast side
Knott County spans about 1,660 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 | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 2,350 ft715 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 690 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
20 mi west to east through Hindman.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 13,438 2024 est.
- Land area
- 351.5 sq mi + 1.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 38 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
- Letcher County1,740 ft
- Knott County1,360 ft
- Perry County1,320 ft
- Pike County1,320 ft
- Magoffin County1,090 ft
- Breathitt County1,070 ft
- Floyd County1,060 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky5th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States946th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Trace Mountain1,940 ft
- Yellow Mountain1,740 ft
- Chestnut Mountain1,710 ft
- Grey Horse Hill1,630 ft
- Big Lovely Mountain1,430 ft
All 3 towns in Knott County by typical elevation
- Pippa Passes1,390 ft
- Hindman1,160 ft
- Vicco partly1,010 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.