Philpot, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
560 ft 170 m520 ft 160 m500 ft 150 m450 ft 140 m410 ft 125 m390 ft 120 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Philpot sits at about 450 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
450 ft 135 m
most residents: 400–480 ft
Lowest
390 ft 120 m
on the west side
Highest
560 ft 170 m
on the north side
Average
420 ft 130 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Philpot spans about 170 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 | 450 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 560 ft170 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 390 ft120 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Philpot | 430 ft130 m |
| Airport (OWB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.1 mi west of the CDP boundary | 407 ft124 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 Daviess County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 991 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.3 sq mi
- Density
- 302 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.7331° N, 86.9889° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Panther Creek → Green River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Owensboro/Daviess County Regional (OWB) 407 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 42303 42366
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Knottsville510 ft
- Whitesville490 ft
- Pleasant Ridge480 ft
- Philpot450 ft
- Utica440 ft
- Yelvington430 ft
- Masonville420 ft
- Rockport, IN410 ft
- Thruston410 ft
- Owensboro400 ft
- Maceo390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky470th highest of 552
- Towns in Daviess County5th highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Barnetts Knob590 ft
- Indian Hill, Daviess County560 ft
- Spice Knob550 ft
- Wolf Hill470 ft
- Sutherland Hill (historical)440 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 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.
- Philpot 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.