Lincoln County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,430 ft 435 m1,270 ft 385 m1,180 ft 360 m1,020 ft 310 m850 ft 260 m770 ft 235 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
Lincoln County averages about 1,070 ft (325 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 770 ft on the north side to 1,430 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
1,070 ft 325 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,430 ft 435 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
770 ft 235 m
on the north side
Lincoln County spans about 660 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 | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 1,430 ft435 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 770 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
24 mi south to north through Stanford.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 24,910 2024 est.
- Land area
- 332.9 sq mi + 3.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 75 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low 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
- Rockcastle County1,160 ft
- Lincoln County1,070 ft
- Casey County1,020 ft
- Pulaski County1,020 ft
- Boyle County970 ft
- Garrard County930 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky20th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States1,295th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Collier Knob1,330 ft
- Dry Knob1,270 ft
- Meetinghouse Knob1,260 ft
- Kings Knob1,260 ft
- Millers Knob1,240 ft
All 6 towns in Lincoln County by typical elevation
- Eubank partly1,190 ft
- McKinney1,030 ft
- Hustonville1,000 ft
- Junction City partly990 ft
- Stanford950 ft
- Crab Orchard940 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.