Mount Vernon, OH Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,220 ft 370 m1,150 ft 350 m1,120 ft 340 m1,060 ft 320 m990 ft 305 m960 ft 295 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
Mount Vernon sits at about 1,020 ft (310 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,020 ft 310 m
most residents: 990–1,150 ft
Lowest
960 ft 295 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,220 ft 370 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,050 ft 320 m
all land inside city limits
Mount Vernon spans about 260 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 | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,220 ft370 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 960 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mount Vernon | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Airport (4I3) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.7 mi southwest of the city limits | 1,192 ft363 m |
| Average of all land | 1,050 ft320 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Knox County, Ohio, United States
- Population
- 17,329 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.9 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,755 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3934° N, 82.4857° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Kokosing River → Walhonding River → Muskingum River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Knox County (4I3) 1,192 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 43050
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Liberty Township, Knox County1,250 ft
- Monroe Township, Knox County1,130 ft
- Pleasant Township, Knox County1,120 ft
- Wayne Township, Knox County1,120 ft
- Morris Township1,110 ft
- Gambier1,080 ft
- College Township1,080 ft
- Miller Township1,070 ft
- Clinton Township, Knox County1,030 ft
- Mount Vernon1,020 ft
- South Mount Vernon1,000 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Ohio713th highest of 2,572
- Towns in Knox County28th highest of 33
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hulse Hill1,420 ft
- Rich Hill1,362 ft
- Braddock Mound1,180 ft
- Rowley Mound1,150 ft
- Ghost Hill1,100 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.