Sacramento, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
520 ft 160 m500 ft 155 m490 ft 150 m470 ft 145 m450 ft 135 m440 ft 135 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sacramento sits at about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
490 ft 150 m
most residents: 480–500 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the east side
Highest
520 ft 160 m
on the northwest side
Average
490 ft 150 m
all land inside city limits
Sacramento spans about 80 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 | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 520 ft160 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 440 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sacramento | 490 ft150 m |
| Airport (2I0) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.9 mi southwest of the city limits | 439 ft134 m |
| Average of all land | 490 ft150 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in McLean County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 424 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 986 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.4159° N, 87.2656° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Green River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Madisonville Regional (2I0) 439 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 42372
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sacramento490 ft
- Powderly480 ft
- South Carrollton450 ft
- Bremen450 ft
- Central City440 ft
- Hanson440 ft
- Island440 ft
- Onton420 ft
- Slaughters410 ft
- Calhoun410 ft
- Livermore400 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky432nd highest of 552
- Towns in McLean Countyhighest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cedar Hill, McLean County590 ft
- Bates Knob560 ft
- Cave Hill, Ohio County550 ft
- Boehler Knob500 ft
- Cemetery Hill (historical)480 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.