Mays Lick, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
950 ft 290 m930 ft 280 m910 ft 280 m890 ft 270 m860 ft 260 m840 ft 255 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Mays Lick sits at about 920 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
920 ft 280 m
most residents: 870–940 ft
Lowest
840 ft 255 m
on the northeast side
Highest
950 ft 290 m
on the southwest side
Average
900 ft 275 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Mays Lick spans about 110 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 | 920 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 950 ft290 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 840 ft255 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mays Lick | 880 ft270 m |
| Airport (FGX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.1 mi east of the CDP boundary | 913 ft278 m |
| Average of all land | 900 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Mason County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 252 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 395 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.5176° N, 83.8419° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- North Fork Licking River → Licking River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Fleming-Mason (FGX) 913 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 41055
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Germantown950 ft
- Ewing930 ft
- Mays Lick920 ft
- Elizaville920 ft
- Sardis910 ft
- Mount Olivet880 ft
- Flemingsburg880 ft
- Maysville810 ft
- Huntington Township, Brown County, OH540 ft
- Aberdeen, OH530 ft
- Ripley, OH520 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky90th highest of 552
- Towns in Mason Countyhighest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sugar Loaf Mountain1,190 ft
- Tunnel Hill, Fleming County960 ft
- Fox Mountain940 ft
- Sycamore Hill940 ft
- Cedar Hill, Robertson County770 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.
- Mays Lick 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.