Lyon County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
670 ft 205 m580 ft 180 m540 ft 165 m450 ft 140 m370 ft 110 m320 ft 100 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
Lyon County averages about 460 ft (140 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 320 ft on the northwest side to 670 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
460 ft 140 m
all land inside the county
Highest
670 ft 205 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
320 ft 100 m
on the northwest side
Lyon County spans about 350 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 | 460 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 670 ft205 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 320 ft100 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
12 mi west to east through Eddyville.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 9,078 2024 est.
- Land area
- 213.8 sq mi + 42.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 42 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- 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
- Caldwell County500 ft
- Trigg County500 ft
- Crittenden County480 ft
- Lyon County460 ft
- Livingston County430 ft
- Marshall County420 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky106th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States2,391st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Buzzard Rock, Lyon County540 ft
- Iron Hill520 ft
- Hallaway Hill490 ft
- Hopewell Hill490 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.