Middlesborough, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,490 ft 455 m1,400 ft 425 m1,350 ft 410 m1,260 ft 385 m1,160 ft 355 m1,110 ft 340 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Middlesborough sits at about 1,160 ft (355 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,160 ft 355 m
most residents: 1,130–1,210 ft
Lowest
1,110 ft 340 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,490 ft 455 m
at the foot of the Cumberland Mountain
Average
1,170 ft 360 m
all land inside city limits
Middlesborough spans about 380 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 | 1,160 ft355 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Cumberland Mountain | 1,490 ft455 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,110 ft340 m |
| Airport (1A6) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,154 ft352 m |
| Average of all land | 1,170 ft360 m |
| Nearest peak Bryson Mountain, 4.9 mi southwest of the city limits | 3,130 ft955 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.9 mi west to east through the middle of Middlesborough.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Bell County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 8,899 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.4 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,205 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.6096° N, 83.7270° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Cumberland River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Middlesboro/Bell County (1A6) 1,154 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 40965
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ewing, VA1,550 ft
- New Tazewell, TN1,490 ft
- Cumberland Gap, TN1,460 ft
- Tazewell, TN1,460 ft
- Harrogate, TN1,320 ft
- Arjay1,300 ft
- Pathfork1,250 ft
- Middlesborough1,160 ft
- Flat Lick1,120 ft
- Artemus1,090 ft
- Pineville1,010 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky33rd highest of 552
- Towns in Bell County2nd highest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cross Mountain3,535 ft
- White Rocks3,510 ft
- Bryson Mountain3,130 ft
- Stout Knob2,950 ft
- Short Mountain2,679 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.