Lexington-Fayette, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,080 ft 330 m950 ft 290 m880 ft 270 m750 ft 230 m620 ft 190 m560 ft 170 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.
- Urban county area
- Fades everything outside the official urban county boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lexington-Fayette sits at about 980 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
980 ft 300 m
most residents: 930–1,020 ft
Lowest
560 ft 170 m
on the south side
Highest
1,080 ft 330 m
on the southeast side
Average
950 ft 290 m
all land inside urban county boundaries
Lexington-Fayette spans about 520 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 980 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside urban county boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Lowest point Inside urban county boundaries, on the south side | 560 ft170 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lexington-Fayette | 1,010 ft305 m |
| Airport (LEX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 980 ft299 m |
| Average of all land | 950 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
19 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Consolidated city and county in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 329,437 2024 est.
- Land area
- 283.9 sq mi + 1.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,161 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.0498° N, 84.4585° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- North Elkhorn Creek → Kentucky River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Blue Grass (LEX) 980 ft
- ZIP codes 19
- 40324 40361 40391 40502 40503 40504 40505 40507 40508 40509 40510 40511 40513 40514 40515 40516 40517 40526 40536
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lexington-Fayette980 ft
- Winchester980 ft
- Nicholasville940 ft
- Keene920 ft
- Versailles910 ft
- Wilmore900 ft
- North Middletown890 ft
- Georgetown870 ft
- Paris860 ft
- Midway840 ft
- Stamping Ground830 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky60th highest of 552
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Spring Hill1,020 ft
- Pleasant Hill, Jessamine County990 ft
- Crow Hill980 ft
- Sugar Hill930 ft
- Grizzard Hill930 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the urban county boundaries, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census urban county boundaries (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) 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).
- 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 (FAA airport elevation, 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 (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.