Lynch, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,000 ft 610 m1,910 ft 585 m1,870 ft 570 m1,770 ft 540 m1,680 ft 510 m1,630 ft 500 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Lynch sits at about 1,810 ft (550 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,810 ft 550 m
most residents: 1,660–1,880 ft
Lowest
1,630 ft 500 m
on the west side
Highest
2,000 ft 610 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,790 ft 545 m
all land inside city limits
Lynch spans about 370 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 | 1,810 ft550 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,000 ft610 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,630 ft500 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lynch | 1,710 ft525 m |
| Average of all land | 1,790 ft545 m |
| Nearest peak Black Mountain, 3.1 mi southeast of the city limits (NGS survey) | 4,139 ft1,262 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 601 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 2,010 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.9662° N, 82.9224° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Cumberland River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 40855
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Keokee, VA2,150 ft
- Stonega, VA2,040 ft
- Dunbar, VA1,930 ft
- Osaka, VA1,910 ft
- Lynch1,810 ft
- Appalachia, VA1,750 ft
- Big Stone Gap, VA1,600 ft
- Benham1,580 ft
- Big Stone Gap East, VA1,550 ft
- Cumberland1,510 ft
- Whitesburg1,170 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky4th highest of 552
- Towns in Harlan Countyhighest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Knob4,180 ft
- Black Mountain4,139 ft
- White Rocks3,510 ft
- Buzzard Roost3,190 ft
- Stocker Knob2,880 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.