Marshall County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
550 ft 170 m490 ft 150 m460 ft 140 m400 ft 120 m330 ft 100 m300 ft 90 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
Marshall County averages about 420 ft (130 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 300 ft on the northwest side to 550 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
420 ft 130 m
all land inside the county
Highest
550 ft 170 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
300 ft 90 m
on the northwest side
Marshall County spans about 250 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 | 420 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 550 ft170 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 300 ft90 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
22 mi south to north through Benton.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 31,734 2024 est.
- Land area
- 302.1 sq mi + 38.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 105 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Coastal Plain 88%, Interior Low Plateaus 12%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Calloway County500 ft
- Trigg County500 ft
- Graves County470 ft
- Lyon County460 ft
- Livingston County430 ft
- Marshall County420 ft
- McCracken County380 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky111th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States2,442nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Stillhouse Hill540 ft
- Danner Hill520 ft
- Nimmo Hill510 ft
- Sinkhole Hill510 ft
- Waller Hill480 ft
All 4 towns in Marshall County by typical elevation
- Benton430 ft
- Hardin410 ft
- Calvert City380 ft
- Gilbertsville350 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.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 270 ft at 37.0343° N, 88.3718° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.