Milton, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
910 ft 275 m790 ft 240 m730 ft 220 m610 ft 185 m490 ft 150 m430 ft 130 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
Milton sits at about 870 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
870 ft 265 m
most residents: 460–910 ft
Lowest
430 ft 130 m
on the west side
Highest
910 ft 275 m
on the south side
Average
770 ft 235 m
all land inside city limits
Milton spans about 480 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 | 870 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 910 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 430 ft130 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Milton | 460 ft140 m |
| Airport (IMS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.9 mi northwest of the city limits | 819 ft250 m |
| Average of all land | 770 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Trimble County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 592 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Density
- 402 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.7237° N, 85.3694° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Madison Regional (IMS) 819 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 40045
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Monroe Township, Jefferson County, IN880 ft
- Milton870 ft
- Madison, IN850 ft
- Madison Township, IN850 ft
- Hanover, IN790 ft
- Hanover Township, Jefferson County, IN790 ft
- Smyrna Township, IN780 ft
- Saluda Township, IN760 ft
- Kent, IN710 ft
- Milton Township, IN630 ft
- Brooksburg, IN470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky120th highest of 552
- Towns in Trimble Countylowest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Byrd910 ft
- Milton Hill910 ft
- Mount Hill860 ft
- Green Hill, Oldham County790 ft
- Bunker Hill, Trimble County680 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. All public domain.