Montgomery County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,450 ft 440 m1,260 ft 385 m1,170 ft 355 m990 ft 300 m800 ft 245 m710 ft 215 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
Montgomery County averages about 930 ft (285 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 710 ft on the south side to 1,450 ft on Westbrook Mountain.
Average elevation
930 ft 285 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,450 ft 440 m
on Westbrook Mountain
Lowest
710 ft 215 m
on the south side
Montgomery County spans about 740 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 | 930 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Westbrook Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 1,450 ft440 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 710 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
13 mi west to east through Mount Sterling.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 28,771 2024 est.
- Land area
- 197.4 sq mi + 1.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 146 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Menifee County1,070 ft
- Montgomery County930 ft
- Powell County920 ft
- Clark County900 ft
- Bourbon County890 ft
- Bath County860 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky32nd highest of 119
- Counties in the United States1,531st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Westbrook Mountain1,450 ft
- Wagon Bed Knob1,370 ft
- Sand Mountain, Montgomery County1,360 ft
- Horselick Knob1,280 ft
- Big Round Mountain, Montgomery County1,150 ft
All 3 towns in Montgomery County by typical elevation
- Mount Sterling1,000 ft
- Camargo900 ft
- Jeffersonville840 ft
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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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.