Magoffin County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,640 ft 500 m1,410 ft 430 m1,300 ft 395 m1,080 ft 330 m850 ft 260 m740 ft 225 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Magoffin County averages about 1,090 ft (335 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 740 ft on the north side to 1,640 ft on the southeast side.

Average elevation

1,090 ft 335 m

all land inside the county

Highest

1,640 ft 500 m

on the southeast side

Lowest

740 ft 225 m

on the north side

Magoffin County spans about 900 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	1,090 ft335 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side	1,640 ft500 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side	740 ft225 m

Elevation profile, south to north

19 mi south to north through Salyersville.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Kentucky, United States
Population: 11,118 2024 est.
Land area: 308.4 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
Density: 36 per sq mi
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Appalachian 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

Knott County1,360 ft
Magoffin County1,090 ft
Breathitt County1,070 ft
Wolfe County1,070 ft
Floyd County1,060 ft
Morgan County990 ft
Johnson County900 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Kentucky15th highest of 119
Counties in the United States1,253rd highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Big Half Mountain1,400 ft
Cotton Knob1,350 ft
Little Half Mountain1,240 ft

The one town in Magoffin County

Salyersville860 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.