Stearns, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,440 ft 440 m1,340 ft 410 m1,290 ft 395 m1,200 ft 365 m1,100 ft 335 m1,060 ft 320 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Stearns sits at about 1,320 ft (400 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,320 ft 400 m
most residents: 1,270–1,380 ft
Lowest
1,060 ft 320 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,440 ft 435 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,300 ft 395 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Stearns spans about 380 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 | 1,320 ft400 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 1,440 ft435 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,060 ft320 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Stearns | 1,350 ft410 m |
| Average of all land | 1,300 ft395 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in McCreary County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 1,365 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.0 sq mi
- Density
- 339 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.6990° N, 84.4774° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Big South Fork Cumberland River → Cumberland River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 42647 42649
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Oneida, TN1,480 ft
- Helenwood, TN1,470 ft
- Huntsville, TN1,390 ft
- Pine Knot1,380 ft
- Winfield, TN1,360 ft
- Stearns1,320 ft
- Whitley City1,310 ft
- Jellico, TN1,060 ft
- Williamsburg1,030 ft
- Emlyn1,000 ft
- Pleasant View1,000 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky15th highest of 552
- Towns in McCreary County2nd highest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cross Mountain3,535 ft
- Buffalo Mountain3,380 ft
- Stallion Mountain3,340 ft
- Bryson Mountain3,130 ft
- Stout Knob2,950 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Stearns is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.