Winchester, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,060 ft 320 m1,010 ft 305 m980 ft 300 m930 ft 285 m880 ft 270 m860 ft 260 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
Winchester sits at about 980 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
980 ft 300 m
most residents: 940–1,010 ft
Lowest
860 ft 260 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,060 ft 320 m
on the east side
Average
960 ft 295 m
all land inside city limits
Winchester spans about 200 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 | 980 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,060 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 860 ft260 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Winchester | 990 ft305 m |
| Average of all land | 960 ft295 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Clark County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 19,413 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.3 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,097 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.9901° N, 84.1797° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Strodes Creek → Stoner Creek → South Fork Licking River → Licking River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 40391
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sharpsburg1,020 ft
- Mount Sterling1,000 ft
- Lexington-Fayette980 ft
- Winchester980 ft
- Richmond940 ft
- Camargo900 ft
- North Middletown890 ft
- Paris860 ft
- Jeffersonville840 ft
- Stanton650 ft
- Clay City630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky61st highest of 552
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pleasant Hill, Clark County1,100 ft
- Spring Hill1,020 ft
- Rose Hill, Clark County1,020 ft
- Eagle Nest Hill930 ft
- Mill Dam Hill880 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.