Summer Shade, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,020 ft 310 m960 ft 295 m930 ft 285 m880 ft 265 m820 ft 250 m790 ft 240 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
Summer Shade sits at about 910 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
910 ft 280 m
most residents: 830–940 ft
Lowest
790 ft 240 m
on the west side
Highest
1,020 ft 310 m
on the southeast side
Average
900 ft 275 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Summer Shade spans about 230 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 | 910 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 790 ft240 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Summer Shade | 900 ft275 m |
| Average of all land | 900 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Metcalfe County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 294 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.0 sq mi
- Density
- 145 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.8842° N, 85.7025° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Green River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 42166
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tompkinsville910 ft
- Summer Shade910 ft
- Edmonton830 ft
- Gamaliel820 ft
- Fountain Run780 ft
- Glasgow750 ft
- Marrowbone730 ft
- Hiseville710 ft
- Cave City640 ft
- Horse Cave640 ft
- Burkesville600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky95th highest of 552
- Towns in Metcalfe Countyhighest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Graven Hill1,170 ft
- Franklin Hill1,120 ft
- Loves Knob1,060 ft
- Lime Kiln Hill1,030 ft
- Bald Hill, Metcalfe County890 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.
- Summer Shade 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. All public domain.