Letcher County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,720 ft 1,135 m3,030 ft 925 m2,680 ft 815 m1,990 ft 605 m1,290 ft 395 m940 ft 290 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
Letcher County averages about 1,740 ft (530 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 940 ft on the west side to 3,720 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
1,740 ft 530 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,720 ft 1,135 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
940 ft 290 m
on the west side
Letcher County spans about 2,780 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 | 1,740 ft530 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 3,720 ft1,135 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 940 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
23 mi west to east through Jenkins.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 20,139 2024 est.
- Land area
- 337.9 sq mi + 1.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 60 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
- Wise County, VA2,320 ft
- Harlan County2,140 ft
- Letcher County1,740 ft
- Knott County1,360 ft
- Perry County1,320 ft
- Pike County1,320 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky2nd highest of 119
- Counties in the United States709th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Halls Butt3,110 ft
- High Rock, Letcher County3,110 ft
- Gamblers Rock2,440 ft
- Bandmill Hill2,110 ft
- Dixon Mountain1,810 ft
All 8 towns in Letcher County by typical elevation
- McRoberts1,880 ft
- Payne Gap1,840 ft
- Jenkins1,820 ft
- Fleming-Neon1,330 ft
- Millstone1,260 ft
- Mayking1,220 ft
- Whitesburg1,170 ft
- Blackey1,150 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.