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Blue Hills Connecticut Map

Explore Blue Hills, Connecticut, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Blue Hills, Connecticut

How to Use This Blue Hills, Connecticut Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Blue Hills, Connecticut. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Connecticut or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Blue Hills.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Blue Hills
State	Connecticut (CT)
County	Hartford County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	41.812877
Longitude	-72.697593
Population	2,762
Density	914.6 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	06002
Area Code	203, 475, 860, 959
County Seat	Hartford
School District	Bloomfield School District

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About Blue Hills, Connecticut

Blue Hills is a locality in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,762. The population density is 914.6 people per km². Blue Hills is located at 41.8129°N, 72.6976°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 06002.

Blue Hills rises from the interior landscape as a collection of steady, rising slopes that define the character of this inland terrain. It lies 3.5 miles north of Hartford, CT (from Hartford, CT: bearing 349°T), and is situated 4.2 miles north-northeast of West Hartford. The North Branch Park River cuts a quiet, persistent channel through the earth only a mile from the center, its waters feeding the local geography long before they reach more expansive basins. To the west, the modest elevation of Cook Hill provides a visual anchor for the horizon, while the cooling shade of the Newton Brainard Forest, five miles distant, marks the boundary where the terrain thickens into deep, protected woodland. Within the residential streets, the Hubbard Street Tot Lot serves as a small, essential green interval where the neighborhood meets the sky, offering a place for the light of late afternoon to settle against the pavement and the occasional drift of leaves.

Blue Hills reflects a history of measured growth, balancing its proximity to the regional sprawl with an identity defined by its own particular, inward-looking pace. The local economy persists through a mix of established residential life and the quiet commerce that supports a population deeply connected to the broader rhythms of the Connecticut interior. Residents often venture toward the East Hartford Cross Country Ski and Jogging Trails when the seasons shift, finding movement in the woods six miles away, or seek the stillness of Lily Pond, which holds the reflected clouds three miles from the heart of the houses. Life in Blue Hills remains defined by this specific distance from the wider world, favoring the steady, terrestrial permanence of the woods and the slow, seasonal pulse of the land over the frantic pace of the larger regional centers.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Cow Mermaid Statue (Public Artwork) — 0.5 mi, 319° NW
Matianuck Sand Dunes Natural Area Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 0.6 mi, 095° E
Unknown Park (Local Recreation) — 0.7 mi, 209° SW
Sport Field (Local Recreation) — 0.8 mi, 155° SE
Keney Park (Local Park) — 0.9 mi, 139° SE
Samuel Wheeler Reed Park (Local Park) — 1.0 mi, 330° NW
Leland P. Wilson Community Center (Local Conservation Area) — 1.1 mi, 065° NE
Wintonbury Hills Playground (Owned By Bloomfield) (Local Conservation Area) — 1.1 mi, 029° NE
Wilson Wilde Auditorium (Theatre) — 1.4 mi, 220° SW
North Branch Park River Water Access (State Recreation Area) — 1.4 mi, 264° W
Museum of American Political Life (Museum) — 1.4 mi, 222° SW
1964 Flood Prevention Project (Monument) — 1.7 mi, 340° N
Hartford Circus Fire Memorial (Monument) — 1.7 mi, 136° SE
Farm Tool (Historic Ruins) — 2.0 mi, 349° N
AMC CLASSIC Bloomfield 8 (Cinema) — 2.3 mi, 303° NW
Windsor Meadows State Park (State Park) — 2.3 mi, 097° E
Connecticut River Water Access (State Recreation Area) — 2.6 mi, 090° E
Connecticut Museum of Culture and History (Museum) — 2.8 mi, 188° S
Geographic Center of Hartford (Attraction) — 3.1 mi, 175° S
TheaterWorks (Theatre) — 3.4 mi, 162° S
General Israel Putnam (Monument) — 3.4 mi, 165° S
Maximilian E. And Marion O. Hoffman Foundation Science Theate (Cinema) — 3.7 mi, 156° SE
Walter Fyler House Museum (Museum) — 4.4 mi, 046° NE
Myths, Minds and Medicine Museum (Museum) — 4.5 mi, 170° S
Vintage Radio & Communications Museum of CT (Museum) — 4.5 mi, 040° NE
Bumper Cars @ Nomad's (Theme Park) — 4.7 mi, 075° E
Penwood State Park (State Park) — 4.8 mi, 291° W
Steven Sauter Rock (Attraction) — 4.8 mi, 246° SW
Heublein Tower (Attraction) — 5.3 mi, 280° W
Silvio O. Conte National Fish And Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 14.5 mi, 165° S · 74k acres

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