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Flat Lick Kentucky Map

Explore Flat Lick, 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 Flat Lick, Kentucky

How to Use This Flat Lick, Kentucky Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Flat Lick, 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 Flat Lick.

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	Flat Lick
State	Kentucky (KY)
County	Knox County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	36.828976
Longitude	-83.770198
Population	850
Density	68.6 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	40935
Area Code	606
County Seat	Barbourville
School District	Knox County School District

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About Flat Lick, Kentucky

Flat Lick is a locality in Knox County, Kentucky, United States. It is a small community with a population of 850. The population density is 68.6 people per km². Flat Lick is located at 36.8290°N, 83.7702°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 40935.

Flat Lick emerges from the landscape where the quiet, persistent pulse of Sandy Branch carves a path through the limestone-rich soil. It lies 49.5 miles east-southeast of Somerset, KY (from Somerset, KY: bearing 111°T), and is situated 7.1 miles east-southeast of Barbourville. Beyond the immediate basin, the terrain lifts toward the distant, hazy silhouette of the Cumberland Mountains, their ridgelines serrated against the bruised purple of a late autumn dusk. Shallow depressions collect the morning mist, while the nearby Pogue Hollow serves as a cool, shaded corridor where the air remains heavy with the scent of damp earth and decaying leaves. The topography here is a deliberate layering of elevation, a series of slopes that drain into the low-lying basin, defining the physical boundary of the land with a singular, unyielding focus.

Flat Lick carries the quiet weight of Appalachian history, where the rhythms of the earth have long dictated the pace of the people who call this place home. The economy, once tethered to the extraction of resources from beneath the soil, now moves with the slow, steady hum of those who work the land and the nearby Kentucky Ridge Forest Wildlife Management Area. Traditions persist in the way the light catches the gable ends of older structures, reflecting a lineage of survival that predates the modern convenience of the highway. While the Kentucky Ridge State Forest stands as a distant, verdant sentinel to the north, the local life remains anchored to the immediate, tangible reality of the hollows and the steady, narrow flow of the water that defines this geography.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Kentucky Ridge Forest Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.0 mi, 172° S
Mill Branch (Conservation Area) — 3.7 mi, 051° NE
Mill Branch Fee (Conservation Area) — 3.7 mi, 051° NE
Pine Mountain State Resort Park (State Park) — 5.8 mi, 164° S
Pine Mountain State Park State Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 5.8 mi, 164° S
Kentucky Ridge State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 6.0 mi, 169° S
Pine Mountain State Scenic Trail (State Park) — 6.8 mi, 135° SE
Barbourville City Park (Local Park) — 6.9 mi, 297° NW
Redbird Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 11.5 mi, 023° NE · 146k acres
Once site of the Collier Hill Inn (Historic Ruins) — 16.2 mi, 307° NW
Pinnacle Overlook (Viewpoint) — 16.5 mi, 160° S
Joseph Martin monument (Monument) — 19.1 mi, 135° SE
Colonel Sanders (Public Artwork) — 19.8 mi, 295° NW
Sander's Cafe and Museum (Museum) — 20.0 mi, 297° NW
Daniel Boone National Forest (National Forest) — 21.0 mi, 296° NW · 564k acres
McHargue's Mill (Museum) — 23.6 mi, 318° NW
Regency Cinema (Cinema) — 26.4 mi, 317° NW
Civil War (Monument) — 26.6 mi, 231° SW
Hawkeye Overlook (Attraction) — 28.4 mi, 084° E
Narrow (Attraction) — 29.1 mi, 085° E
Railhouse (Attraction) — 29.3 mi, 084° E
Lions Den (Attraction) — 29.8 mi, 083° E
Six Gun City (Historic Ruins) — 32.0 mi, 271° W
Beaver Creek Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 35.2 mi, 280° W · 4,854 acres
Camp Wildcat Battle Monument (Monument) — 38.4 mi, 322° NW
Royal Blue Wildlife Management Area (Nature Reserve) — 40.5 mi, 227° SW
Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area (Wild & Scenic River) — 41.0 mi, 265° W · 114k acres
Coal Miners Memorial Theater (Theatre) — 46.2 mi, 078° E
Kentucky Coal Mining Museum (Museum) — 46.2 mi, 078° E
Norris Museum (Museum) — 46.7 mi, 201° S

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