Explore Goshen, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Goshen, 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 Goshen.
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 | Goshen |
| State | Kentucky (KY) |
| County | Lincoln County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 38.403427 |
| Longitude | -85.58372 |
| Population | 892 |
| Density | 1748.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 40484, 40026 |
| Area Code | 502 |
| County Seat | Stanford |
| School District | Oldham County School District |
Goshen occupies a landscape defined by the quiet accumulation of limestone and the deep, fertile patience of Kentucky soil. It lies 12.4 miles east-southeast of Danville, KY (from Danville, KY: bearing 121°T), and is situated 4.5 miles south of Lancaster. The terrain here rises and falls in long, muscular swells, a topography that keeps the eye moving across open pastures and dense, sudden thickets of hardwood. Only a mile away, the dark waters of Stingy Creek carve a narrow path through the earth, a constant, low-frequency presence that shapes the drainage of the surrounding meadows. While the distant, hazy silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains marks the eastern horizon, the immediate world of Goshen is one of intimate fields and the pervasive, soft light of the inland plains, where the sun seems to linger longer against the pale trunks of sycamores at the day’s end.
Goshen maintains a character forged in the legacy of the agrarian South, where the rhythm of the seasons still dictates the cadence of the morning. The local economy finds its roots in the stewardship of the land, with broad swaths of acreage dedicated to the cultivation of bluegrass and the careful tending of livestock. A short distance away, the Bouteloua Barrens State Nature Preserve offers a protected sanctuary for the native grasses that once defined this region, providing a sharp contrast to the managed thoroughbred farms that dot the perimeter. Life in Goshen moves with the deliberate pace of a place that understands its own boundaries, whether looking toward the quiet expanse of the Stanford Reservoir or observing the quiet shift of commerce within the nearby Hamilton Valley, far removed from the frantic noise of modern industrial centers.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Goshen, Kentucky. Coordinates: 38.403427, -85.58372. 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 Goshen includes the ZIP code (40484, 40026), telephone area code (502), county seat of Lincoln County (Stanford), and school district assignment (Oldham County School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |