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Elk Creek Kentucky Map

Explore Elk Creek, 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 Elk Creek, Kentucky

How to Use This Elk Creek, Kentucky Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Elk Creek, 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 Elk Creek.

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	Elk Creek
State	Kentucky (KY)
County	Spencer County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	38.115191
Longitude	-85.37163
Population	1,986
Density	132.4 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	40071, 40023
Area Code	502
County Seat	Taylorsville
School District	Spencer County School District

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About Elk Creek, Kentucky

Elk Creek is a locality in Spencer County, Kentucky, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,986. The population density is 132.4 people per km². Elk Creek is located at 38.1152°N, 85.3716°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 40071, 40023.

Elk Creek carves a winding, limestone-bottomed path through the heavy, fertile soil of the Kentucky landscape, pulling the gaze toward the horizon where the distant shadows of the Appalachian Mountains occasionally haunt the twilight. It lies 10.1 miles east-northeast of Mount Washington, KY (from Mount Washington, KY: bearing 70°T), and is situated 8.5 miles south of Simpsonville. The land here rises in slow, deliberate swells of pasture and dense hardwood stands, a geography defined by the persistent moisture of the creek and the deep, mineral-rich earth that dictates the pace of the local flora. When the sun dips low, the light flattens against the open fields, turning the tall grasses into shades of burnished copper and grey, a stillness settling over the terrain that feels as heavy and permanent as the bedrock itself.

Elk Creek carries the weight of a quiet, agrarian history, its economy tethered to the rhythmic demands of the soil and the slow maturation of the grain that feeds the region’s storied distilleries. While the residents look toward the Spencer County Community Park Project for their shared recreation, the true character of the place remains pinned to the private cycles of the harvest and the maintenance of the fence lines that partition the rolling countryside. Travelers might pass through the vicinity of Feather Bed Hollow or catch the shimmer of Taylorsville Lake, but the core of Elk Creek persists in the deliberate, solitary labor of those who work the limestone-rich ground, finding a modest sort of grace in a life governed by the changing of the seasons.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Parklands of Floyds Fork (Local Conservation Area) — 6.8 mi, 305° NW
The Parklands of Floyds Fork (Local Park) — 6.8 mi, 305° NW
Taylorsville Lake State Park (State Park) — 6.9 mi, 146° SE
Taylorsville Lake Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 6.9 mi, 146° SE
Rolleigh Peterson Educational Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 7.0 mi, 318° NW
Turkey Run (Local Park) — 7.5 mi, 276° W
Jeptha Creed Distillery (Attraction) — 7.8 mi, 049° NE
Taylorsville Lake (Recreation Area) — 7.8 mi, 147° SE
Ben Stout House (Monument) — 9.0 mi, 273° W
Big Vista Overlook (Viewpoint) — 9.6 mi, 263° W
Blackacre State Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 10.1 mi, 302° NW
Iwo Jima memorial (Monument) — 10.6 mi, 250° W
Vietnam War memorial (Monument) — 10.7 mi, 250° W
Gaslight Lamp (Public Artwork) — 11.7 mi, 298° NW
Guist Creek Lake (State Recreation Area) — 13.2 mi, 060° NE
Party Center (Attraction) — 13.7 mi, 311° NW
McNeely Lake (State Recreation Area) — 14.0 mi, 266° W
E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park (State Park) — 14.7 mi, 318° NW
Bingo City (Attraction) — 14.8 mi, 293° NW
Village 8 (Cinema) — 16.4 mi, 300° NW
Colonel Sanders Museum (Museum) — 18.5 mi, 288° W
Walleroo Walkabout (Attraction) — 19.0 mi, 289° W
Wolf Pen Branch Mill (Historic Ruins) — 19.0 mi, 321° NW
Petting Zoo Area (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 19.1 mi, 289° W
Louisville zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 19.2 mi, 289° W
Shechem Ministries (Nature Reserve) — 19.2 mi, 107° E
Butterfly Garden (Nature Reserve) — 19.2 mi, 289° W
Wyatt Center for the Arts (Theatre) — 19.5 mi, 292° W
Norton Fine Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 19.5 mi, 292° W
Hoosier National Forest (National Forest) — 55.1 mi, 292° W · 204k acres

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