Pulaski County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,690 ft 515 m1,440 ft 440 m1,320 ft 400 m1,070 ft 325 m820 ft 250 m700 ft 215 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
Pulaski County averages about 1,020 ft (310 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 700 ft on the south side to 1,690 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
1,020 ft 310 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,690 ft 515 m
on the west side
Lowest
700 ft 210 m
on the south side
Pulaski County spans about 990 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 | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 1,690 ft515 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 700 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
34 mi west to east through Somerset.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 66,842 2024 est.
- Land area
- 658.1 sq mi + 19.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 102 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Interior Low Plateaus 90%, Appalachian Plateaus 10%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- McCreary County1,190 ft
- Rockcastle County1,160 ft
- Laurel County1,160 ft
- Wayne County1,080 ft
- Lincoln County1,070 ft
- Casey County1,020 ft
- Pulaski County1,020 ft
- Russell County930 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky24th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States1,364th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Cedar Knob, Pulaski County1,520 ft
- Cash Knob1,440 ft
- Big Knob1,430 ft
- Buzzard Knob, Pulaski County1,410 ft
- Buzzard Rock Knob1,390 ft
All 5 towns in Pulaski County by typical elevation
- Eubank1,190 ft
- Science Hill1,100 ft
- Somerset970 ft
- Ferguson930 ft
- Burnside850 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.