Mount Sterling, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m1,000 ft 305 m980 ft 300 m940 ft 285 m890 ft 270 m870 ft 265 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
Mount Sterling sits at about 1,000 ft (305 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,000 ft 305 m
most residents: 960–1,020 ft
Lowest
870 ft 265 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the west side
Average
980 ft 300 m
all land inside city limits
Mount Sterling spans about 180 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 | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 870 ft265 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mount Sterling | 970 ft295 m |
| Airport (IOB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.1 mi west of the city limits | 1,020 ft311 m |
| Average of all land | 980 ft300 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Montgomery County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 7,588 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.5 sq mi
- Density
- 1,688 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.0565° N, 83.9433° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Hinkston Creek → South Fork Licking River → Licking River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Mount Sterling/Montgomery County (IOB) 1,020 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 40353
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sharpsburg1,020 ft
- Mount Sterling1,000 ft
- Winchester980 ft
- Owingsville960 ft
- Camargo900 ft
- North Middletown890 ft
- Carlisle880 ft
- Jeffersonville840 ft
- Salt Lick660 ft
- Stanton650 ft
- Clay City630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky53rd highest of 552
- Towns in Montgomery Countyhighest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gravel Knob1,090 ft
- Welch Knob990 ft
- Ficklin Knob970 ft
- Gibson Knob, Montgomery County960 ft
- Indian Hill, Montgomery County850 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 870 ft at 38.0818° N, 83.9729° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.