Perry County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,500 ft 760 m2,050 ft 625 m1,830 ft 560 m1,380 ft 420 m940 ft 285 m720 ft 220 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
Perry County averages about 1,320 ft (400 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 720 ft on the northwest side to 2,500 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
1,320 ft 400 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,500 ft 760 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the northwest side
Perry County spans about 1,780 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 | 1,320 ft400 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 2,500 ft760 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 720 ft220 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
21 mi south to north through Hazard.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 26,739 2024 est.
- Land area
- 339.7 sq mi + 2.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 79 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian 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
- Harlan County2,140 ft
- Letcher County1,740 ft
- Leslie County1,480 ft
- Knott County1,360 ft
- Perry County1,320 ft
- Clay County1,200 ft
- Breathitt County1,070 ft
- Owsley County1,050 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky6th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States988th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Dixon Knob2,150 ft
- Halls Mountain1,760 ft
- Lost Mountain1,710 ft
- Crawford Mountain1,630 ft
- Langdon Knob1,590 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.