Fayette County, OH Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,130 ft 345 m1,050 ft 320 m1,010 ft 305 m930 ft 280 m840 ft 255 m800 ft 245 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
Fayette County averages about 980 ft (300 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 800 ft on the east side to 1,130 ft on Dumpling Hill.
Average elevation
980 ft 300 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,130 ft 345 m
on Dumpling Hill
Lowest
800 ft 245 m
on the east side
Fayette County spans about 330 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 | 980 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Dumpling Hill (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 800 ft245 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
17 mi west to east through Washington Court House.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Ohio, United States
- Population
- 28,782 2024 est.
- Land area
- 406.4 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 71 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Clinton County1,030 ft
- Madison County1,010 ft
- Highland County1,000 ft
- Fayette County980 ft
- Greene County980 ft
- Ross County840 ft
- Pickaway County790 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Ohio32nd highest of 88
- Counties in the United States1,431st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Dumpling Hill1,130 ft
All 18 towns in Fayette County by typical elevation
- Jefferson Township, Fayette County1,050 ft
- Jeffersonville1,050 ft
- Milledgeville1,050 ft
- Octa1,040 ft
- Jasper Township1,040 ft
- Green Township, Fayette County1,030 ft
- Perry Township, Fayette County1,010 ft
- Concord Township, Fayette County1,000 ft
- Paint Township, Fayette County990 ft
- Bloomingburg990 ft
- Union Township, Fayette County980 ft
- Washington Court House970 ft
- Wayne Township, Fayette County930 ft
- Good Hope930 ft
- Madison Township, Fayette County920 ft
- Marion Township, Fayette County880 ft
- Pancoastburg870 ft
- New Holland partly850 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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.