Olive Hill, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,030 ft 315 m950 ft 290 m920 ft 280 m840 ft 255 m770 ft 235 m730 ft 220 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Olive Hill sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 780–930 ft
Lowest
730 ft 220 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,030 ft 315 m
on the north side
Average
850 ft 260 m
all land inside city limits
Olive Hill spans about 300 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 730 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Olive Hill | 760 ft230 m |
| Average of all land | 850 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Carter County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 1,533 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.0 sq mi
- Density
- 770 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.3001° N, 83.1741° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Tygarts Creek → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 41164
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Olive Hill850 ft
- Sandy Hook820 ft
- Lakeview Heights790 ft
- Morehead790 ft
- Farmers790 ft
- Cannonsburg680 ft
- Blaine660 ft
- Grayson630 ft
- Vanceburg540 ft
- Greenup540 ft
- Garrison530 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky134th highest of 552
- Towns in Carter Countyhighest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Biggs Hill1,130 ft
- Armstrong Hill1,100 ft
- Potato Knob, Carter County1,080 ft
- Mayo Hill, Carter County1,060 ft
- Hocks Nest1,050 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.