St. Matthews, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
590 ft 180 m560 ft 170 m550 ft 170 m530 ft 160 m500 ft 155 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
St. Matthews sits at about 540 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
540 ft 165 m
most residents: 520–560 ft
Lowest
490 ft 150 m
on the southwest side
Highest
590 ft 180 m
on the northeast side
Average
540 ft 165 m
all land inside city limits
St. Matthews spans about 100 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 | 540 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 590 ft180 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 490 ft150 m |
| Airport (SDF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.2 mi southwest of the city limits | 501 ft153 m |
| Average of all land | 540 ft165 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.7 mi south to north through the middle of St. Matthews.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 17,806 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.4 sq mi
- Density
- 4,039 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.2505° N, 85.6378° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Louisville Muhammad Ali International (SDF) 501 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 40207 40222
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Druid Hills570 ft
- Brownsboro Village570 ft
- Maryhill Estates570 ft
- Bellewood570 ft
- Windy Hills560 ft
- Norwood560 ft
- St. Matthews540 ft
- Woodlawn Park540 ft
- Richlawn540 ft
- Norbourne Estates540 ft
- Beechwood Village530 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky377th highest of 552
- Towns in Jefferson County65th highest of 82
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pleasant Hill, Jefferson County770 ft
- Kenwood Hill750 ft
- Evergreen Hill730 ft
- Red Stone Hill700 ft
- Finley Hill700 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.