Murray, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
580 ft 175 m540 ft 165 m530 ft 160 m490 ft 150 m460 ft 140 m440 ft 135 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Murray sits at about 540 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
540 ft 165 m
most residents: 510–550 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the northeast side
Highest
580 ft 175 m
on the west side
Average
520 ft 160 m
all land inside city limits
Murray spans about 140 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 | 540 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 580 ft175 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 440 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Murray | 540 ft165 m |
| Airport (CEY) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.3 mi northwest of the city limits | 577 ft176 m |
| Average of all land | 520 ft160 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Calloway County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 18,567 2024 est.
- Land area
- 11.7 sq mi
- Density
- 1,587 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.6103° N, 88.3148° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Clarks River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Kyle-Oakley Field (CEY) 577 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 42071
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Puryear, TN610 ft
- Hazel550 ft
- Cottage Grove, TN540 ft
- Farmington540 ft
- Whitlock, TN540 ft
- Murray540 ft
- Buchanan, TN520 ft
- Sedalia510 ft
- Dexter430 ft
- Benton430 ft
- Hardin410 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky387th highest of 552
- Towns in Calloway County2nd highest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stillhouse Hill540 ft
- Danner Hill520 ft
- Buzzard Roost, Calloway County520 ft
- Nimmo Hill510 ft
- Chestnut Hill470 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.