Ohio County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
800 ft 245 m690 ft 210 m630 ft 195 m520 ft 160 m410 ft 125 m360 ft 110 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ohio County averages about 480 ft (150 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 360 ft on the southwest side to 800 ft on the northeast side.
Average elevation
480 ft 150 m
all land inside the county
Highest
800 ft 245 m
on the northeast side
Lowest
360 ft 110 m
on the southwest side
Ohio County spans about 440 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 480 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 800 ft245 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 360 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
27 mi west to east through Beaver Dam.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 23,933 2024 est.
- Land area
- 587.1 sq mi + 9.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 41 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Grayson County640 ft
- Breckinridge County630 ft
- Butler County510 ft
- Hancock County500 ft
- Ohio County480 ft
- Muhlenberg County480 ft
- Daviess County420 ft
- McLean County410 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky102nd highest of 119
- Counties in the United States2,348th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Rattlesnake Knob, Ohio County790 ft
- Tunnel Hill, Ohio County720 ft
- Bean Hill680 ft
- Hickory Knob, Ohio County680 ft
- Iron Ore Hill, Ohio County670 ft
All 8 towns in Ohio County by typical elevation
- Rosine570 ft
- Fordsville500 ft
- Pleasant Ridge480 ft
- McHenry450 ft
- Rockport450 ft
- Centertown450 ft
- Beaver Dam430 ft
- Hartford410 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, 330 ft at 37.4032° N, 87.0687° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.