Powell County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,450 ft 440 m1,230 ft 375 m1,120 ft 345 m910 ft 275 m690 ft 210 m580 ft 175 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
Powell County averages about 920 ft (280 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 580 ft on the west side to 1,450 ft on Pilot Knob.
Average elevation
920 ft 280 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,450 ft 440 m
on Pilot Knob
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the west side
Powell County spans about 870 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 | 920 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Pilot Knob (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 1,450 ft440 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 580 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
10 mi south to north through Stanton.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 12,928 2024 est.
- Land area
- 179.0 sq mi + 1.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 72 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Interior Low Plateaus 63%, Appalachian Plateaus 37%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Wolfe County1,070 ft
- Menifee County1,070 ft
- Lee County960 ft
- Montgomery County930 ft
- Powell County920 ft
- Estill County910 ft
- Clark County900 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky35th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States1,553rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Pilot Knob, Powell County1,450 ft
- Morris Mountain1,440 ft
- Rotten Point1,430 ft
- State Rock1,420 ft
- Kaincaid Mountain1,380 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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.