Pippa Passes, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,870 ft 570 m1,640 ft 500 m1,530 ft 465 m1,300 ft 395 m1,070 ft 325 m960 ft 295 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Pippa Passes sits at about 1,390 ft (425 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside city limits (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,390 ft 425 m
few residents
Lowest
960 ft 295 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,870 ft 570 m
on the south side
Average
1,380 ft 420 m
all land inside city limits
Pippa Passes spans about 910 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 | 1,390 ft425 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1,870 ft570 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 960 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pippa Passes | 990 ft305 m |
| Average of all land | 1,380 ft420 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Knott County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 583 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 1,307 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.3348° N, 82.8740° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Levisa Fork → Big Sandy River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 41844
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- McRoberts1,880 ft
- Pippa Passes1,390 ft
- Fleming-Neon1,330 ft
- Wheelwright1,290 ft
- Millstone1,260 ft
- Hindman1,160 ft
- Blackey1,150 ft
- Vicco1,010 ft
- Wayland850 ft
- McDowell710 ft
- Maytown660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky10th highest of 552
- Towns in Knott Countyhighest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Knob4,180 ft
- Black Mountain4,139 ft
- Big A Mountain3,705 ft
- Buzzard Roost3,190 ft
- Stocker Knob2,880 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the city limits; 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 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.