Williamsburg, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,730 ft 530 m1,520 ft 465 m1,420 ft 435 m1,210 ft 370 m1,000 ft 305 m900 ft 275 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
Williamsburg sits at about 1,030 ft (315 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,030 ft 315 m
most residents: 950–1,100 ft
Lowest
900 ft 275 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,730 ft 530 m
on the west side
Average
1,050 ft 320 m
all land inside city limits
Williamsburg spans about 830 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 | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,730 ft530 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 900 ft275 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Williamsburg | 930 ft280 m |
| Airport (BYL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.4 mi northwest of the city limits | 1,178 ft359 m |
| Average of all land | 1,050 ft320 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Whitley County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 5,332 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,279 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.7434° N, 84.1597° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Cumberland River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Williamsburg-Whitley County (BYL) 1,178 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 40769
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pine Knot1,380 ft
- Stearns1,320 ft
- Whitley City1,310 ft
- North Corbin1,160 ft
- Corbin1,150 ft
- Jellico, TN1,060 ft
- Williamsburg1,030 ft
- Rockholds1,020 ft
- Emlyn1,000 ft
- Pleasant View1,000 ft
- Barbourville980 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky44th highest of 552
- Towns in Whitley County2nd highest of 5
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cross Mountain3,535 ft
- White Rocks3,510 ft
- Stallion Mountain3,340 ft
- Bryson Mountain3,130 ft
- Stout Knob2,950 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.