Lawrence County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,310 ft 400 m1,110 ft 340 m1,010 ft 310 m820 ft 250 m620 ft 190 m520 ft 160 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
Lawrence County averages about 830 ft (255 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 520 ft on the northeast side to 1,310 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
830 ft 255 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,310 ft 400 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
520 ft 160 m
on the northeast side
Lawrence County spans about 790 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 | 830 ft255 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 520 ft160 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
25 mi south to north through Louisa.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 15,798 2024 est.
- Land area
- 415.6 sq mi + 4.5 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
- Morgan County990 ft
- Martin County970 ft
- Elliott County930 ft
- Johnson County900 ft
- Carter County870 ft
- Wayne County, WV870 ft
- Lawrence County830 ft
- Boyd County740 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky55th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States1,749th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Bishop Knob1,130 ft
- Peach Orchard Knob, Lawrence County1,130 ft
- Miller Hill, Lawrence County1,060 ft
- Phil Hill1,040 ft
- Jerry Riffe Hill980 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.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 520 ft at 38.2426° N, 82.6129° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.