Rowan County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,420 ft 435 m1,220 ft 370 m1,120 ft 340 m920 ft 280 m730 ft 220 m630 ft 190 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
Rowan County averages about 1,000 ft (305 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 630 ft on the west side to 1,420 ft on Limestone Knob.
Average elevation
1,000 ft 305 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,420 ft 435 m
on Limestone Knob
Lowest
630 ft 190 m
on the west side
Rowan County spans about 790 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 | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Limestone Knob | 1,420 ft435 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side | 630 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
24 mi south to north through Morehead.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 24,675 2024 est.
- Land area
- 279.9 sq mi + 6.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 88 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Appalachian Plateaus 88%, Interior Low Plateaus 12%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Menifee County1,070 ft
- Rowan County1,000 ft
- Morgan County990 ft
- Elliott County930 ft
- Lewis County890 ft
- Carter County870 ft
- Fleming County860 ft
- Bath County860 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky25th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States1,395th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Limestone Knob1,420 ft
- Lockegee Rock1,360 ft
- Sugarloaf Mountain, Rowan County1,340 ft
- Clack Mountain1,320 ft
- Smoky Knob1,290 ft
All 3 towns in Rowan County by typical elevation
- Lakeview Heights790 ft
- Morehead790 ft
- Farmers790 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.
- Highest ground: the single highest 3DEP cell, 1,420 ft at 38.3199° N, 83.4871° W, has no federal (GNIS) summit name within 980 ft (300 m), so the high point shown is the highest of the 25 highest cells with a GNIS summit within 1,640 ft (500 m).
- 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.