Oldham County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
920 ft 280 m790 ft 240 m730 ft 225 m610 ft 185 m480 ft 145 m420 ft 130 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
Oldham County averages about 720 ft (220 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 420 ft on the west side to 920 ft on the east side.
Average elevation
720 ft 220 m
all land inside the county
Highest
920 ft 280 m
on the east side
Lowest
420 ft 130 m
on the west side
Oldham County spans about 500 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 | 720 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the east side | 920 ft280 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 420 ft130 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
16 mi west to east through La Grange.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 70,525 2024 est.
- Land area
- 187.3 sq mi + 9.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 377 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- 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
- Shelby County790 ft
- Henry County780 ft
- Trimble County760 ft
- Oldham County720 ft
- Clark County, IN620 ft
- Jefferson County570 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky76th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States1,979th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Gathright Hill840 ft
- Green Hill, Oldham County790 ft
All 9 towns in Oldham County by typical elevation
- La Grange820 ft
- Buckner780 ft
- Crestwood760 ft
- Pewee Valley760 ft
- Orchard Grass Hills690 ft
- Goshen680 ft
- River Bluff630 ft
- Prospect partly530 ft
- Westport460 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.
- 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.