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Kensington Georgia Map

Explore Kensington, Georgia, 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 Kensington, Georgia

How to Use This Kensington, Georgia Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Kensington, Georgia. 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 Georgia 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 Kensington.

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	Kensington
State	Georgia (GA)
County	Walker County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	33.497914
Longitude	-82.158175
Population	480
Density	18.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	30707, 30907, 30740
Area Code	706, 762, 770
County Seat	LaFayette

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About Kensington, Georgia

Kensington is a locality in Walker County, Georgia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 18.0 people per km². Kensington is located at 33.4979°N, 82.1582°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 30707, 30907, 30740.

Kensington emerges from the red-clay earth as a quiet confluence of pastoral stillness and the rugged, unyielding geometry of the local terrain. It lies 13.7 miles south-southwest of Fort Oglethorpe, GA (from Fort Oglethorpe, GA: bearing 209°T), and is situated 7.0 miles northwest of LaFayette. Mill Creek carves a narrow, serpentine path through the landscape, its waters reflecting the heavy, humid light that settles over the fields at dusk. Only a mile away, the limestone bluffs of the Crockford-Pigeon Mountain Wildlife Management Area rise to meet the sky, providing a stark, vertical contrast to the low-lying pastures of McLemore Cove. The air here carries the scent of damp soil and sun-warmed pine, a heavy, fragrant atmosphere that seems to slow the progression of the afternoon. While the distant Appalachian Mountains remain a jagged silhouette upon the horizon, the immediate ground is defined by the intimate, shifting shadows cast by the dense thickets of hardwood that cling to the limestone slopes.

Kensington maintains a character forged by the slow, deliberate rhythms of agricultural life, where the legacy of the land dictates the pace of the day. The economy remains tethered to the fertile potential of the valley floor, with small-scale farming and the management of timbered tracts forming the quiet backbone of the local industry. Life here is measured not by the transit of people through the region, but by the seasonal turning of the crops and the maintenance of the homesteads that dot the perimeter of the cove. History is not written in grand monuments but in the worn fence lines and the enduring architecture of barns that have weathered decades of Southern summer heat. For those seeking a respite from the modern velocity of life, the proximity to the LaFayette City Reservoir offers a singular, placid expanse of water, serving as a rare, still mirror for the vast, unhurried sky above.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Blanchard Park (Local Park) — 0.6 mi, 068° E
Greenspace Program Acquisition (Local Recreation) — 1.3 mi, 008° N
Columbia County Greenspace (Local Park) — 1.3 mi, 008° N
Flowing Wells Theater (Theatre) — 2.9 mi, 091° E
Danny Goodale Memorial Recreation Center (Monument) — 3.8 mi, 223° SW
Patriots Park (Local Recreation) — 4.1 mi, 288° W
Blue Star Memorial By-Way (Monument) — 4.4 mi, 292° W
James L. Mason Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.0 mi, 005° N
Sumter National Forest (National Forest) — 7.3 mi, 019° N · 375k acres
Taxadium Distichum Bald Cypress (Monument) — 7.7 mi, 063° NE
Amen Corner (Attraction) — 7.8 mi, 092° E
Savannah Rapids Love Locks (Public Artwork) — 7.8 mi, 062° NE
Greater Augusta Arts Council (Arts Centre) — 10.6 mi, 098° E
J. Strom Thurmond Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 10.7 mi, 347° N
Westobou (Gallery) — 10.8 mi, 097° E
Morris Museum of Art (Museum) — 11.0 mi, 097° E
Augusta Cotton Exchange Building (Attraction) — 11.3 mi, 097° E
Phinizy Swamp Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 11.3 mi, 121° SE
Augusta Museum of History (Museum) — 11.5 mi, 098° E
Wildwood Park (State Park) — 11.5 mi, 325° NW
J. Strom Thurmond Lake (Recreation Area) — 11.5 mi, 348° N
Sunken Airplane (Historic Ruins) — 11.5 mi, 350° N
Phinizy Swamp Nature Park (Attraction) — 13.4 mi, 126° SE
Mistletoe State Park (State Park) — 14.8 mi, 310° NW
DuPont Planetarium (Museum) — 23.0 mi, 077° E
Aiken County Historical Museum (Museum) — 25.2 mi, 081° E
Bisquecuts & Glazy (Arts Centre) — 25.2 mi, 086° E
Savannah River Site Museum (Museum) — 25.4 mi, 080° E
Aiken Community Playhouse (Theatre) — 25.6 mi, 080° E
Oconee National Forest (National Forest) — 56.3 mi, 281° W · 116k acres

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