Prestonsburg, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,430 ft 435 m1,220 ft 375 m1,120 ft 340 m910 ft 280 m700 ft 215 m600 ft 180 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Prestonsburg sits at about 640 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
640 ft 195 m
most residents: 630–920 ft
Lowest
600 ft 180 m
on the north side
Highest
1,430 ft 435 m
on the northeast side
Average
900 ft 275 m
all land inside city limits
Prestonsburg spans about 830 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 | 640 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,430 ft435 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 600 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Prestonsburg | 630 ft195 m |
| Average of all land | 900 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 3,638 2024 est.
- Land area
- 14.8 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 246 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.6657° N, 82.7715° 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
- 41653
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Van Lear780 ft
- Betsy Layne720 ft
- McDowell710 ft
- Martin680 ft
- Dwale660 ft
- Maytown660 ft
- Allen640 ft
- Prestonsburg640 ft
- Auxier630 ft
- West Van Lear620 ft
- Paintsville620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky281st highest of 552
- Towns in Floyd County9th highest of 10
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 population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 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.