Leslie County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,590 ft 790 m2,140 ft 650 m1,920 ft 585 m1,460 ft 445 m1,010 ft 310 m790 ft 240 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
Leslie County averages about 1,480 ft (450 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 790 ft on the north side to 2,590 ft on Chestnut Knob.
Average elevation
1,480 ft 450 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,590 ft 790 m
on Chestnut Knob
Lowest
790 ft 240 m
on the north side
Leslie County spans about 1,800 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 | 1,480 ft450 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Chestnut Knob (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 2,590 ft790 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 790 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
26 mi south to north through Hyden.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 9,729 2024 est.
- Land area
- 400.9 sq mi + 3.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 24 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
- Harlan County2,140 ft
- Bell County1,690 ft
- Leslie County1,480 ft
- Perry County1,320 ft
- Clay County1,200 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky4th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States869th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Chestnut Knob, Leslie County2,590 ft
- Gray Mountain2,400 ft
- Potato Knob, Leslie County2,130 ft
- Lucindas Knob1,857 ft
- Negro Knob1,670 ft
The one town in Leslie County
- Hyden910 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.