New Haven, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
590 ft 180 m560 ft 170 m540 ft 165 m500 ft 155 m460 ft 140 m450 ft 135 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
New Haven sits at about 480 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
480 ft 145 m
most residents: 460–510 ft
Lowest
450 ft 135 m
on the northwest side
Highest
590 ft 180 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
490 ft 150 m
all land inside city limits
New Haven 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 | 480 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 590 ft180 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 450 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for New Haven | 470 ft145 m |
| Average of all land | 490 ft150 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Nelson County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 829 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 1,429 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.6578° N, 85.5911° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Rolling Fork → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 40051
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Buffalo790 ft
- Elizabethtown780 ft
- Hodgenville760 ft
- St. Mary760 ft
- Loretto730 ft
- Bardstown680 ft
- Raywick610 ft
- New Hope590 ft
- Lebanon Junction480 ft
- New Haven480 ft
- Boston460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky444th highest of 552
- Towns in Nelson County6th highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cambron Knob970 ft
- Blue Gap Knob970 ft
- Forty Acre Knob960 ft
- Vineyard Knob960 ft
- Strang Knob870 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.