Cambridge Kentucky Map

About Cambridge, Kentucky

Cambridge is a locality in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. It is a small community with a population of 162. The population density is 1137.2 people per km². Cambridge is located at 38.2217°N, 85.6166°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Cambridge is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 40220.

Cambridge persists as a quiet confluence of limestone and shadow, where the low-slung horizon is defined by the steady, unpretentious progression of the land. It lies 1.8 miles southeast of St. Matthews, KY (from St. Matthews, KY: bearing 145°T), and is situated 8.1 miles east-southeast of Louisville. Weicher Creek cuts a narrow, winding path through the local topography, its waters tracing the contours of the earth with a persistence that softens the jagged edges of the surrounding bedrock. The air here holds a particular weight, smelling of damp soil and the distant, cooling breath of the Appalachian Mountains, which loom as a faint, violet smudge against the sky far to the east. Within the local borders, Des Pres offers a parcel of preserved ground where the light filters through the canopy in thin, golden needles, illuminating the thick moss that clings to the base of the hickory trees.

Cambridge retains the measured stillness of a place where the economy has long been tethered to the slow yield of the soil and the quiet industry of the interior plains. Farmers move with the seasons, their work dictated by the fertility of the local expanse, while the proximity of Tucker Lake serves as a reflective anchor for the residents who gather there when the heat of late summer settles into the valley. History in Cambridge is not captured in grand monuments, but in the enduring layout of the roads and the stubborn endurance of structures that have weathered decades of Kentucky winters. Life here unfolds with a deliberate, rhythmic gravity, indifferent to the pace of the wider world, favoring instead the simple, recurring patterns of the land and the quiet intersections of those who remain.

About This Cambridge Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cambridge, Kentucky. Coordinates: 38.221737, -85.616627. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Cambridge includes the ZIP code (40220), telephone area code (502), county seat of Jefferson County (Louisville), and school district assignment (Jefferson County School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.