Upton, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
840 ft 255 m810 ft 245 m790 ft 240 m760 ft 230 m720 ft 220 m710 ft 215 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
Upton sits at about 740 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
740 ft 225 m
most residents: 720–760 ft
Lowest
710 ft 215 m
on the west side
Highest
840 ft 255 m
on the northeast side
Average
740 ft 225 m
all land inside city limits
Upton spans about 130 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 | 740 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 840 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 710 ft215 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Upton | 740 ft225 m |
| Average of all land | 740 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Hardin and Larue counties, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 703 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.4 sq mi
- Density
- 518 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.4651° N, 85.8933° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Nolin River → Green River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 42784
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Magnolia840 ft
- Buffalo790 ft
- Elizabethtown780 ft
- Hodgenville760 ft
- Big Clifty750 ft
- Upton740 ft
- Sonora720 ft
- Cecilia720 ft
- Hardyville700 ft
- Bonnieville660 ft
- Munfordville590 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky204th highest of 552
- Towns in Hardin County4th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Three Springs Knob960 ft
- Jacobs Knob950 ft
- Jim Moore Hill930 ft
- Gardner Knob894 ft
- Veach Knob890 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, 690 ft at 37.4682° N, 85.9046° 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.