Mount Washington, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
730 ft 220 m650 ft 200 m610 ft 185 m540 ft 165 m460 ft 140 m420 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
Mount Washington sits at about 660 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
660 ft 200 m
most residents: 620–690 ft
Lowest
420 ft 130 m
on the southwest side
Highest
730 ft 220 m
on the east side
Average
650 ft 200 m
all land inside city limits
Mount Washington spans about 310 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 | 660 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 730 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 420 ft130 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mount Washington | 700 ft215 m |
| Airport (SDF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi northwest of the city limits | 501 ft153 m |
| Average of all land | 650 ft200 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Bullitt County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 18,863 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.6 sq mi
- Density
- 1,970 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.0501° N, 85.5458° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Salt River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Louisville Muhammad Ali International (SDF) 501 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 40047
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Washington660 ft
- Spring Mill650 ft
- Hollow Creek650 ft
- Heritage Creek640 ft
- Brooks560 ft
- Louisville/Jefferson County metro government560 ft
- Hillview550 ft
- Hebron Estates540 ft
- Pioneer Village540 ft
- Hunters Hollow520 ft
- Fox Chase510 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky253rd highest of 552
- Towns in Bullitt Countyhighest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Buttonmold Knob800 ft
- Wagonbed Knob740 ft
- MacDonald Knob710 ft
- Coleman Knob710 ft
- The Lost Knob520 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.