Russell Springs, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,100 ft 335 m1,050 ft 320 m1,030 ft 315 m980 ft 300 m930 ft 285 m910 ft 275 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Russell Springs sits at about 1,070 ft (325 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,070 ft 325 m
most residents: 1,030–1,090 ft
Lowest
910 ft 275 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,100 ft 335 m
near the middle
Average
1,050 ft 320 m
all land inside city limits
Russell Springs spans about 190 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 | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 910 ft275 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Russell Springs | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Airport (K24) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.1 mi south of the city limits | 1,010 ft308 m |
| Average of all land | 1,050 ft320 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Russell County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 2,807 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.7 sq mi
- Density
- 595 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.0562° N, 85.0886° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Cumberland River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Russell County (K24) 1,010 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 42642
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Science Hill1,100 ft
- Russell Springs1,070 ft
- Jamestown970 ft
- Somerset970 ft
- Albany950 ft
- Monticello940 ft
- Campbellsville830 ft
- Liberty820 ft
- Columbia790 ft
- Greensburg650 ft
- Burkesville600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky43rd highest of 552
- Towns in Russell Countyhighest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Old Brown Knob1,340 ft
- Hill Knob1,280 ft
- Cub Creek Hill1,130 ft
- Harris Point1,030 ft
- Antioch Hill1,000 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.