Mayking, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,970 ft 600 m1,770 ft 540 m1,670 ft 510 m1,470 ft 450 m1,270 ft 385 m1,170 ft 355 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Mayking sits at about 1,220 ft (375 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,220 ft 375 m
most residents: 1,180–1,480 ft
Lowest
1,170 ft 355 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,970 ft 600 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,360 ft 415 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Mayking 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 | 1,220 ft375 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 1,970 ft600 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mayking | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Average of all land | 1,360 ft415 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 475 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Density
- 308 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.1334° N, 82.7660° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- North Fork Kentucky River → Kentucky River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 41858
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Stonega, VA2,040 ft
- Dunbar, VA1,930 ft
- McRoberts1,880 ft
- Payne Gap1,840 ft
- Jenkins1,820 ft
- Pound, VA1,710 ft
- Fleming-Neon1,330 ft
- Millstone1,260 ft
- Mayking1,220 ft
- Whitesburg1,170 ft
- Blackey1,150 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky23rd highest of 552
- Towns in Letcher County6th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Knob4,180 ft
- Black Mountain4,139 ft
- Big A Mountain3,705 ft
- Buzzard Roost3,190 ft
- Stocker Knob2,880 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Mayking is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.