Taylorsville, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
770 ft 235 m690 ft 210 m650 ft 200 m580 ft 175 m500 ft 155 m470 ft 140 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
Taylorsville sits at about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
490 ft 150 m
most residents: 480–720 ft
Lowest
470 ft 140 m
on the west side
Highest
770 ft 235 m
on the east side
Average
580 ft 175 m
all land inside city limits
Taylorsville spans about 300 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 | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 770 ft235 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 470 ft140 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Taylorsville | 490 ft150 m |
| Average of all land | 580 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Spencer County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 1,317 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 1,404 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.0317° N, 85.3425° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Salt River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 40071
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Chaplin780 ft
- Simpsonville780 ft
- Shelbyville760 ft
- Elk Creek740 ft
- Fairfield720 ft
- Bloomfield700 ft
- Bardstown680 ft
- Jeffersontown670 ft
- Mount Washington660 ft
- Heritage Creek640 ft
- Taylorsville490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky427th highest of 552
- Towns in Spencer Countylowest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Elk Hill810 ft
- Fairfield Hill, Nelson County780 ft
- Driscol Hill770 ft
- Anderson Hill700 ft
- Blacks Hill640 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.