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Burnside Kentucky Map

Explore Burnside, Kentucky, 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 Burnside, Kentucky

How to Use This Burnside, Kentucky Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Burnside, Kentucky. 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 Kentucky 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 Burnside.

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	Burnside
State	Kentucky (KY)
County	Pulaski County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	37.004307
Longitude	-84.643673
Population	694
Density	70.7 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	42519, 42503
Area Code	270
County Seat	Somerset
School District	Pulaski County School District

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About Burnside, Kentucky

Burnside is a locality in Pulaski County, Kentucky, United States. It is a small community with a population of 694. The population density is 70.7 people per km². Burnside is located at 37.0043°N, 84.6437°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Burnside is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 42519, 42503.

Burnside defines the landscape where the Hayes Branch carves a quiet, persistent path through the limestone-heavy earth. It lies 7.1 miles south of Somerset, KY (from Somerset, KY: bearing 178°T), and is situated 17.6 miles northeast of Monticello. The terrain rises and falls in long, muscular swells that eventually taper toward the distant, hazy blue outlines of the Appalachian Mountains. Here, the air holds a particular weight at dusk, cooling rapidly as the light dims and settles into the deep, porous rock. Lake Cumberland stretches out as a vast, glass-still presence, its edges blurring into the dense woodland that defines the region’s perimeter. Residents move through Burnside City Park with a deliberate, measured gait, finding clarity in the stillness of the trees and the quiet, unforced geometry of the local topography.

Burnside carries the quiet gravity of a place that once served as a vital junction for commerce and transit, its history tethered to the movement of goods across the inland waterways. The economy has shifted from the pulse of industrial transport to a slower, more localized rhythm, yet the echoes of that earlier era remain in the sturdy, utilitarian architecture that anchors the streets. Tucked away from the busier thoroughfares, the land near River Hollow serves as a reminder of the agricultural and geologic heritage that has long sustained the people here. Life in Burnside proceeds with an awareness of the changing seasons, where the primary concerns are the cycle of the forest, the maintenance of the land, and the quiet endurance of a community that looks toward the water as both a boundary and a source of deep, abiding composure.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Lake Cumberland Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — locality lies within
Cumberland Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — locality lies within
Lake Cumberland (Recreation Area) — 0.0 mi, 326° NW
Showplace Cinemas (Cinema) — 2.4 mi, 025° NE
Burnside City Park (Local Park) — 2.4 mi, 114° SE
General Burnside Island State Park (State Park) — 2.5 mi, 123° SE
First Boy Scout Troop (Monument) — 2.6 mi, 113° SE
Daniel Boone National Forest (National Forest) — 5.5 mi, 140° SE · 564k acres
Rocky Hollow Recreation Center (Local Park) — 6.0 mi, 020° N
Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument (National Monument) — 6.2 mi, 304° NW · 33 acres
Town Spring (Monument) — 6.3 mi, 019° N
Confederate Mass Grave Monument (Monument) — 6.3 mi, 304° NW
Downtown Somerset Welcome (Attraction) — 6.4 mi, 018° N
Senator John Sherman Cooper (Public Artwork) — 6.4 mi, 020° N
Meadow Creek Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 6.7 mi, 218° SW
Beaver Creek Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 11.5 mi, 133° SE · 4,854 acres
Three Forks of Beaver Overlook (Viewpoint) — 13.4 mi, 123° SE
Beast Mode (Attraction) — 15.3 mi, 145° SE
Short Creek Cave (Attraction) — 15.4 mi, 049° NE
Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area (Wild & Scenic River) — 15.5 mi, 157° SE · 114k acres
Wayne County Historical Museum (Museum) — 16.5 mi, 223° SW
Wayne County Historic Theater (Cinema) — 16.5 mi, 223° SW
Cumberland Falls State Resort Park (State Park) — 18.3 mi, 125° SE
Six Gun City (Historic Ruins) — 19.9 mi, 125° SE
Hollow Rock (Attraction) — 23.4 mi, 187° S
Sander's Cafe and Museum (Museum) — 30.5 mi, 096° E
Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and Museum (Museum) — 31.6 mi, 033° NE
McHargue's Mill (Museum) — 33.0 mi, 080° E
Once site of the Collier Hill Inn (Historic Ruins) — 35.3 mi, 094° E
Site of Historic Stanford Fort (Historic Castle / Fort) — 36.4 mi, 357° N

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