Manchester, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,620 ft 495 m1,420 ft 435 m1,320 ft 405 m1,120 ft 340 m920 ft 280 m820 ft 250 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
Manchester sits at about 950 ft (290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
950 ft 290 m
most residents: 870–1,130 ft
Lowest
820 ft 250 m
on the north side
Highest
1,620 ft 495 m
on Orchard Knob
Average
1,040 ft 315 m
all land inside city limits
Manchester spans about 800 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 | 950 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Orchard Knob | 1,620 ft495 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 820 ft250 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Manchester | 870 ft265 m |
| Average of all land | 1,040 ft315 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Clay County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 1,433 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.9 sq mi
- Density
- 490 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.1537° N, 83.7619° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Goose Creek → South Fork Kentucky River → Kentucky River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 40962
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- East Bernstadt1,220 ft
- London1,220 ft
- Annville1,190 ft
- North Corbin1,160 ft
- Flat Lick1,120 ft
- Artemus1,090 ft
- Barbourville980 ft
- Manchester950 ft
- Hyden910 ft
- Buckhorn820 ft
- Oneida790 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky78th highest of 552
- Towns in Clay Countyhighest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Black Mountain4,139 ft
- White Rocks3,510 ft
- Buzzard Roost3,190 ft
- Bryson Mountain3,130 ft
- Stout Knob2,950 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.