Nicholasville, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,060 ft 325 m1,010 ft 310 m980 ft 300 m930 ft 285 m880 ft 265 m850 ft 260 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
Nicholasville sits at about 940 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
940 ft 285 m
most residents: 900–1,000 ft
Lowest
850 ft 260 m
on the west side
Highest
1,060 ft 325 m
on the north side
Average
960 ft 290 m
all land inside city limits
Nicholasville spans about 210 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 | 940 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,060 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 850 ft260 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Nicholasville | 940 ft285 m |
| Airport (LEX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.0 mi north of the city limits | 980 ft299 m |
| Average of all land | 960 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Jessamine County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 33,458 2024 est.
- Land area
- 15.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,138 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.8806° N, 84.5730° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Kentucky River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Blue Grass (LEX) 980 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 40356
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lancaster1,000 ft
- Lexington-Fayette980 ft
- Nicholasville940 ft
- Richmond940 ft
- Keene920 ft
- Versailles910 ft
- Wilmore900 ft
- Burgin890 ft
- Harrodsburg880 ft
- High Bridge850 ft
- Salvisa820 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky79th highest of 552
- Towns in Jessamine Countyhighest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Catnip Hill1,030 ft
- Meridian Hill1,020 ft
- Crow Hill980 ft
- Boones Knob960 ft
- Chimney Rock, Garrard County910 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.