Somerset, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,280 ft 390 m1,150 ft 350 m1,080 ft 330 m950 ft 290 m810 ft 250 m750 ft 230 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Somerset sits at about 970 ft (295 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
970 ft 295 m
most residents: 900–1,030 ft
Lowest
750 ft 230 m
on the south side
Highest
1,280 ft 390 m
on Reservoir Knob
Average
960 ft 295 m
all land inside city limits
Somerset spans about 530 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 | 970 ft295 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Reservoir Knob | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 750 ft230 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Somerset | 980 ft295 m |
| Airport (SME) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 927 ft283 m |
| Average of all land | 960 ft295 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Pulaski County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 12,389 2024 est.
- Land area
- 15.2 sq mi
- Density
- 815 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.0920° N, 84.6041° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Cumberland River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lake Cumberland Regional (SME) 927 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 42501 42503
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Eubank1,190 ft
- Mount Vernon1,170 ft
- Science Hill1,100 ft
- Brodhead970 ft
- Somerset970 ft
- Monticello940 ft
- Crab Orchard940 ft
- Livingston930 ft
- Ferguson930 ft
- Burnside850 ft
- Liberty820 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky69th highest of 552
- Towns in Pulaski County3rd highest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cross Mountain3,535 ft
- Stallion Mountain3,340 ft
- Bryson Mountain3,130 ft
- Stout Knob2,950 ft
- Hale Knob1,100 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.