Onton, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
480 ft 145 m450 ft 140 m440 ft 135 m420 ft 125 m390 ft 120 m380 ft 115 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Onton sits at about 420 ft (130 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
420 ft 130 m
few residents
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the northwest side
Highest
480 ft 145 m
on the north side
Average
420 ft 130 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Onton spans about 100 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 420 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 480 ft145 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 380 ft115 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Onton | 460 ft140 m |
| Average of all land | 420 ft130 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Webster County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 138 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 167 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.5550° N, 87.4369° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Green River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 42455
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Poole480 ft
- West Louisville450 ft
- Panther450 ft
- Beech Grove440 ft
- Hanson440 ft
- Robards440 ft
- Onton420 ft
- St. Joseph420 ft
- Slaughters410 ft
- Calhoun410 ft
- Sebree400 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky502nd highest of 552
- Towns in Webster County3rd highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Steamport Hill640 ft
- Wrightsburg Hill600 ft
- Bald Knob, Webster County590 ft
- Beal Hill570 ft
- Johnson Island440 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (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.
- Onton is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.