Laurel County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,750 ft 530 m1,480 ft 450 m1,350 ft 415 m1,090 ft 335 m830 ft 255 m700 ft 215 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
Laurel County averages about 1,160 ft (355 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 700 ft on the southwest side to 1,750 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
1,160 ft 355 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,750 ft 530 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
700 ft 215 m
on the southwest side
Laurel County spans about 1,050 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 | 1,160 ft355 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,750 ft530 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 700 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
20 mi west to east through London.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 63,353 2024 est.
- Land area
- 433.7 sq mi + 10.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 146 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
- Knox County1,260 ft
- Jackson County1,220 ft
- Whitley County1,210 ft
- Clay County1,200 ft
- McCreary County1,190 ft
- Rockcastle County1,160 ft
- Laurel County1,160 ft
- Pulaski County1,020 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky14th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States1,176th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Cutoff Knob1,653 ft
- Laurel Hill, Laurel County1,610 ft
- Frazier Knob1,560 ft
- Rocky Knob, Laurel County1,540 ft
- Wildcat Mountain, Laurel County1,360 ft
All 3 towns in Laurel County by typical elevation
- East Bernstadt1,220 ft
- London1,220 ft
- North Corbin1,160 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.