Russellville, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
830 ft 255 m750 ft 230 m700 ft 215 m620 ft 190 m530 ft 160 m490 ft 150 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
Russellville sits at about 610 ft (185 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
610 ft 185 m
most residents: 590–680 ft
Lowest
490 ft 150 m
on the northeast side
Highest
830 ft 255 m
on the southwest side
Average
650 ft 195 m
all land inside city limits
Russellville spans about 340 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 | 610 ft185 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 830 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 490 ft150 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Russellville | 590 ft180 m |
| Airport (4M7) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.6 mi southeast of the city limits | 692 ft211 m |
| Average of all land | 650 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Logan County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 7,431 2024 est.
- Land area
- 11.0 sq mi
- Density
- 676 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.8453° N, 86.8872° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Mud River → Green River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Russellville-Logan County (4M7) 692 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 42276
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Franklin720 ft
- Orlinda, TN710 ft
- Auburn650 ft
- Woodburn630 ft
- Elkton630 ft
- Russellville610 ft
- Adairville600 ft
- Allensville580 ft
- Dunmor570 ft
- Guthrie550 ft
- Lewisburg480 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky308th highest of 552
- Towns in Logan County2nd highest of 4
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Rainbow Rock Knob870 ft
- Buzzard Knob, Logan County840 ft
- Sugarloaf Knob, Logan County830 ft
- Luckett Knob810 ft
- Simmons Knob690 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.