McCracken County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
500 ft 150 m450 ft 135 m420 ft 130 m370 ft 110 m320 ft 95 m290 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
McCracken County averages about 380 ft (115 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 290 ft on the northwest side to 500 ft on the south side.
Average elevation
380 ft 115 m
all land inside the county
Highest
500 ft 150 m
on the south side
Lowest
290 ft 90 m
on the northwest side
McCracken County spans about 210 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 | 380 ft115 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the south side | 500 ft150 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 290 ft90 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
16 mi west to east through Paducah.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 67,550 2024 est.
- Land area
- 248.8 sq mi + 19.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 272 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Graves County470 ft
- Livingston County430 ft
- Marshall County420 ft
- Carlisle County390 ft
- Massac County, IL390 ft
- McCracken County380 ft
- Ballard County380 ft
- Pulaski County, IL360 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky116th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States2,498th highest of 3,151
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.