Morgan County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,410 ft 430 m1,230 ft 375 m1,150 ft 350 m970 ft 295 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
Morgan County averages about 990 ft (300 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 710 ft on the east side to 1,410 ft on the south side.
Average elevation
990 ft 300 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,410 ft 430 m
on the south side
Lowest
710 ft 215 m
on the east side
Morgan County spans about 700 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 | 990 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the south side | 1,410 ft430 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 710 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
23 mi south to north through West Liberty.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 14,300 2024 est.
- Land area
- 381.1 sq mi + 2.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 38 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian 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
- Magoffin County1,090 ft
- Wolfe County1,070 ft
- Menifee County1,070 ft
- Rowan County1,000 ft
- Morgan County990 ft
- Elliott County930 ft
- Johnson County900 ft
- Lawrence County830 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky27th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States1,427th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Pilot Knob, Morgan County1,330 ft
- Testerman Knob1,290 ft
- Peddler Hill1,270 ft
- Jeff Lewis Hill1,260 ft
- Granddaddy Knob1,260 ft
All 2 towns in Morgan County by typical elevation
- West Liberty1,030 ft
- Ezel930 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. 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.