Wayne County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,790 ft 545 m1,510 ft 460 m1,380 ft 420 m1,110 ft 335 m830 ft 255 m700 ft 215 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Wayne County averages about 1,080 ft (330 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 700 ft on the northeast side to 1,790 ft on Koger Mountain.
Average elevation
1,080 ft 330 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,790 ft 545 m
on Koger Mountain
Lowest
700 ft 215 m
on the northeast side
Wayne County spans about 1,090 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Koger Mountain | 1,790 ft545 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 700 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
26 mi south to north through Monticello.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 19,629 2024 est.
- Land area
- 458.0 sq mi + 26.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 43 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Appalachian Plateaus 56%, Interior Low Plateaus 45%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Scott County, TN1,540 ft
- McCreary County1,190 ft
- Pickett County, TN1,090 ft
- Wayne County1,080 ft
- Pulaski County1,020 ft
- Clinton County1,000 ft
- Russell County930 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kentucky16th highest of 119
- Counties in the United States1,271st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Slippery Rock1,780 ft
- Fentress Hill1,770 ft
- Edwards Mountain1,750 ft
- Cherry Gap Mountain1,750 ft
- Bridgeman Mountain1,740 ft
The one town in Wayne County
- Monticello940 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Highest ground: the single highest 3DEP cell, 1,790 ft at 36.6340° N, 84.9668° W, has no federal (GNIS) summit name within 980 ft (300 m), so the high point shown is the highest of the 25 highest cells with a GNIS summit within 1,640 ft (500 m).
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.