Van Lear, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,410 ft 430 m1,200 ft 365 m1,100 ft 335 m900 ft 275 m690 ft 210 m590 ft 180 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
Van Lear sits at about 780 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
780 ft 240 m
most residents: 610–850 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,410 ft 430 m
on the northeast side
Average
840 ft 255 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Van Lear spans about 820 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 | 780 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 1,410 ft430 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 590 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Van Lear | 650 ft195 m |
| Airport (SJS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi east of the CDP boundary | 1,222 ft372 m |
| Average of all land | 840 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Johnson County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 893 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.1 sq mi
- Density
- 220 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.7712° N, 82.7579° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Levisa Fork → Big Sandy River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Big Sandy Regional (SJS) 1,222 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 41265
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Van Lear780 ft
- Inez730 ft
- Betsy Layne720 ft
- Martin680 ft
- Dwale660 ft
- Maytown660 ft
- Allen640 ft
- Prestonsburg640 ft
- Auxier630 ft
- West Van Lear620 ft
- Paintsville620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky182nd highest of 552
- Towns in Johnson Countyhighest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Knob4,180 ft
- Black Mountain4,139 ft
- Big A Mountain3,705 ft
- Bettys Knob1,250 ft
- Rocky Knob, Johnson County1,130 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.
- Van Lear 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.