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Forest Hills Kentucky Map

Explore Forest Hills, 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 Forest Hills, Kentucky

How to Use This Forest Hills, Kentucky Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Forest Hills, 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 Forest Hills.

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	Forest Hills
State	Kentucky (KY)
County	Pike County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	38.216769
Longitude	-85.585637
Population	438
Density	585.2 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	41015, 41527, 40299
Area Code	859, 502
County Seat	Pikeville
School District	Jefferson County School District

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About Forest Hills, Kentucky

Forest Hills is a locality in Pike County, Kentucky, United States. It is a small community with a population of 438. The population density is 585.2 people per km². Forest Hills is located at 38.2168°N, 85.5856°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Forest Hills is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 41015, 41527, 40299.

Forest Hills reveals itself through the low, verdant geometry of Pauley Hollow, where the land sinks into a quiet basin defined by the steady, persistent passage of the Road Fork. It lies 61.0 miles south-southeast of Ashland, KY (from Ashland, KY: bearing 162°T), and is situated 2.7 miles south-southwest of Williamson. The terrain possesses a limestone-rich solidity, grounded by the heavy, humid air that carries the scent of damp earth and deep-rooted timber. While the distant, hazy silhouettes of the Appalachian Mountains occasionally sharpen against the bruised violet of a twilight sky, the immediate landscape remains preoccupied with its own modest elevations and shaded clearings. Light here behaves with a peculiar, filtered quality, catching on the limestone outcrops and turning the afternoon gray into a soft, metallic silver that lingers long after the sun has retreated behind the ridges.

Forest Hills maintains a character shaped by the slow, deliberate work of the inland soil, where the local economy has long favored the patient cultivation of the land and the quiet management of regional resources. Residents often find their way to the Ramella Park Community Garden of Eatin' to tend to the harvest, a practice that anchors the daily rhythm of the neighborhood in the tactile reality of growth and seasonal change. Although the bustle of distant transit hubs remains a world away, the proximity of Cotigo Lake offers a singular, reflective expanse that draws the eye toward the horizon. Life in Forest Hills persists with a composure that ignores the frantic pace of the wider world, favoring instead the steady, reliable pulse of a place where history is measured in the reclamation of the ground and the silent, enduring presence of the surrounding woods.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Samuel B. Welch Park (Local Park) — 0.2 mi, 331° NW
Des Pres (Local Park) — 1.0 mi, 302° NW
Gaslight Lamp (Public Artwork) — 2.0 mi, 141° SE
Confederate Martyrs Monument (Monument) — 2.0 mi, 153° SE
Party Center (Attraction) — 2.3 mi, 034° NE
Bingo City (Attraction) — 2.4 mi, 238° SW
Tri Ân Monument (Monument) — 2.5 mi, 138° SE
Blackacre State Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 2.7 mi, 120° SE
Village 8 (Cinema) — 2.8 mi, 294° NW
Woodlawn Race Course (Monument) — 4.0 mi, 323° NW
E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park (State Park) — 4.2 mi, 017° N
Parklands of Floyds Fork (Local Conservation Area) — 5.5 mi, 111° E
Colonel Sanders Museum (Museum) — 6.1 mi, 259° W
Gorilla Sanctuary (Attraction) — 6.4 mi, 264° W
Pygmy Hippo Area (Attraction) — 6.4 mi, 264° W
Walden theater (Theatre) — 6.4 mi, 292° W
Petting Zoo Area (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 6.4 mi, 263° W
Wyatt Center for the Arts (Theatre) — 6.4 mi, 272° W
Norton Fine Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 6.4 mi, 272° W
Louisville zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 6.5 mi, 263° W
Butterfly Garden (Nature Reserve) — 6.6 mi, 264° W
Garden Gateway Overlook - Beckley Creek Park (Viewpoint) — 6.6 mi, 078° E
Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind (Museum) — 7.5 mi, 292° W
Charlestown State Park (State Park) — 10.6 mi, 343° N

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