Sturgis, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
380 ft 115 m370 ft 115 m370 ft 110 m350 ft 110 m340 ft 105 m340 ft 105 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
Sturgis sits at about 370 ft (110 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
370 ft 110 m
most residents: 350–370 ft
Lowest
340 ft 105 m
on the southeast side
Highest
380 ft 115 m
on the northwest side
Average
360 ft 110 m
all land inside city limits
Sturgis spans about 40 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 | 370 ft110 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 380 ft115 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 340 ft105 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sturgis | 370 ft115 m |
| Airport (TWT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.2 mi east of the city limits | 372 ft113 m |
| Average of all land | 360 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Union County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 1,655 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 1,057 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.5467° N, 87.9839° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Sturgis Municipal (TWT) 372 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 42459
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Marion590 ft
- Bowlesville Township, IL440 ft
- Morganfield430 ft
- Breckinridge Center420 ft
- Waverly410 ft
- Cave-In-Rock, IL400 ft
- Clay400 ft
- Wheatcroft370 ft
- Sturgis370 ft
- Shawnee Township, IL350 ft
- Old Shawneetown, IL350 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky544th highest of 552
- Towns in Union County4th highest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Heath Mountain600 ft
- Lizard Point560 ft
- Blueberry Hill560 ft
- Round Hill, Crittenden County490 ft
- Carding Machine Hill470 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 340 ft at 37.5379° N, 87.9904° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.