Salem, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
550 ft 170 m520 ft 155 m500 ft 150 m460 ft 140 m420 ft 130 m410 ft 125 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
Salem sits at about 450 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
450 ft 135 m
most residents: 430–460 ft
Lowest
410 ft 125 m
on the east side
Highest
550 ft 170 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
440 ft 135 m
all land inside city limits
Salem spans about 140 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 | 450 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 550 ft170 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 410 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Salem | 450 ft135 m |
| Airport (GDA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.8 mi northeast of the city limits | 653 ft199 m |
| Average of all land | 440 ft135 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Livingston County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 706 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 829 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2645° N, 88.2442° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Marion-Crittenden County James C Johnson Regional (GDA) 653 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 42078
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Crayne660 ft
- Marion590 ft
- Burna560 ft
- Salem450 ft
- Fredonia420 ft
- Cave-In-Rock, IL400 ft
- Rosiclare, IL390 ft
- Elizabethtown, IL390 ft
- Carrsville370 ft
- Tolu370 ft
- Smithland360 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky468th highest of 552
- Towns in Livingston County2nd highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hardin Knob820 ft
- Cave Hill, Crittenden County700 ft
- Moore Hill, Crittenden County670 ft
- Eberle Knobs670 ft
- Kirk Knobs670 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.