Pendleton County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
960 ft 295 m830 ft 255 m760 ft 235 m630 ft 190 m500 ft 150 m430 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
Pendleton County averages about 740 ft (225 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 430 ft on the north side to 960 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
740 ft 225 m
all land inside the county
Highest
960 ft 295 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
430 ft 130 m
on the north side
Pendleton County spans about 530 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 | 740 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 960 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 430 ft130 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
16 mi west to east through Falmouth.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 14,844 2024 est.
- Land area
- 277.1 sq mi + 4.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 54 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
- Clermont County, OH830 ft
- Grant County820 ft
- Harrison County810 ft
- Bracken County800 ft
- Kenton County780 ft
- Pendleton County740 ft
- Campbell County700 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky74th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States1,943rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Thomas Hill920 ft
- Greenwood Hill900 ft
- Pleasant Hill, Pendleton County890 ft
- Oak Hill850 ft
- Reservoir Hill, Pendleton County780 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, 150 ft at 38.7954° N, 84.3510° 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.