London, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,560 ft 475 m1,450 ft 440 m1,390 ft 425 m1,280 ft 390 m1,170 ft 355 m1,110 ft 340 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
London sits at about 1,220 ft (370 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,220 ft 370 m
most residents: 1,170–1,310 ft
Lowest
1,110 ft 340 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,560 ft 475 m
on Frazier Knob
Average
1,210 ft 370 m
all land inside city limits
London spans about 450 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 | 1,220 ft370 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Frazier Knob | 1,560 ft475 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,110 ft340 m |
| Town center USGS map point for London | 1,240 ft380 m |
| Airport (LOZ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,212 ft369 m |
| Average of all land | 1,210 ft370 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Laurel County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 7,573 2024 est.
- Land area
- 11.7 sq mi
- Density
- 649 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.1290° N, 84.0833° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Cumberland River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- London/Corbin/Magee (LOZ) 1,212 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 40741 40744
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- McKee1,280 ft
- East Bernstadt1,220 ft
- London1,220 ft
- Annville1,190 ft
- Mount Vernon1,170 ft
- North Corbin1,160 ft
- Corbin1,150 ft
- Rockholds1,020 ft
- Barbourville980 ft
- Manchester950 ft
- Livingston930 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky26th highest of 552
- Towns in Laurel County2nd highest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cross Mountain3,535 ft
- White Rocks3,510 ft
- Bryson Mountain3,130 ft
- Stout Knob2,950 ft
- Frazier Knob1,560 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.