Rockholds, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,420 ft 430 m1,310 ft 400 m1,250 ft 380 m1,140 ft 345 m1,030 ft 315 m970 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Rockholds sits at about 1,020 ft (310 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,020 ft 310 m
most residents: 980–1,190 ft
Lowest
970 ft 295 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,420 ft 430 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,050 ft 320 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Rockholds spans about 450 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 | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,420 ft430 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 970 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rockholds | 990 ft300 m |
| Airport (BYL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 1,178 ft359 m |
| Average of all land | 1,050 ft320 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Whitley County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 330 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 278 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.8287° N, 84.1163° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Cumberland River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Williamsburg-Whitley County (BYL) 1,178 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 40759
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- London1,220 ft
- North Corbin1,160 ft
- Corbin1,150 ft
- Flat Lick1,120 ft
- Artemus1,090 ft
- Jellico, TN1,060 ft
- Williamsburg1,030 ft
- Rockholds1,020 ft
- Emlyn1,000 ft
- Pleasant View1,000 ft
- Barbourville980 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky48th highest of 552
- Towns in Whitley County3rd highest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cross Mountain3,535 ft
- White Rocks3,510 ft
- Stallion Mountain3,340 ft
- Bryson Mountain3,130 ft
- Stout Knob2,950 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.
- Rockholds 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.