Marion County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,250 ft 380 m1,060 ft 325 m960 ft 295 m770 ft 235 m580 ft 175 m480 ft 145 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
Marion County averages about 790 ft (240 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 480 ft on the northwest side to 1,250 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
790 ft 240 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,250 ft 380 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
480 ft 145 m
on the northwest side
Marion County spans about 770 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 | 790 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 480 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
26 mi west to east through Lebanon.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 19,851 2024 est.
- Land area
- 343.6 sq mi + 3.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 58 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- 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
- Casey County1,020 ft
- Boyle County970 ft
- Taylor County860 ft
- Marion County790 ft
- Larue County780 ft
- Washington County770 ft
- Nelson County650 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky59th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States1,821st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Putnam Knob1,240 ft
- Evans Knob1,190 ft
- Round Knob, Marion County1,130 ft
- Turkey Knob, Marion County1,120 ft
- Cooley Knob1,100 ft
All 5 towns in Marion County by typical elevation
- Lebanon800 ft
- St. Mary760 ft
- Loretto730 ft
- Bradfordsville680 ft
- Raywick610 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.