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Hills and Dales Kentucky Map

Explore Hills and Dales, 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 Hills and Dales, Kentucky

How to Use This Hills and Dales, Kentucky Map

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

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.

CityHills and Dales
StateKentucky (KY)
CountyJefferson County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneEastern Time (America/New_York)
Latitude38.301181
Longitude-85.624684
Population146
Density563.7 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Code40241
Area Code502
County SeatLouisville
School DistrictJefferson County School District

About Hills and Dales, Kentucky

Hills and Dales is a locality in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. It is a small community with a population of 146. The population density is 563.7 people per km². Hills and Dales is located at 38.3012°N, 85.6247°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Hills and Dales is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 40241.

Hills and Dales emerges from the landscape as a quiet intersection of limestone bedrock and deep-rooted woodland. It lies 3.3 miles north-northwest of Lyndon, KY (from Lyndon, KY: bearing 338°T), and is situated 8.0 miles east-northeast of Louisville. Goose Creek marks the boundary of this terrain, its waters carving a subtle path through the earth that dictates the layout of the land itself. The light here often takes on a heavy, golden quality in the late afternoon, filtering through the dense canopy that extends toward the horizon where the distant Appalachian Mountains appear as a faint, jagged smudge against the sky. Two miles away, the stillness of Putneys Pond provides a reflective contrast to the constant, low-frequency movement of the creek, while the nearby Goose Creek/Lime Kiln preserve maintains a quiet authority over the surrounding flora, ensuring the wilder edges of the territory remain undisturbed by the encroachment of modern development.

Economic life in Hills and Dales has long been tethered to the physical character of the soil, favoring agricultural persistence and the slow, deliberate pace of regional trade. The influence of the broader Kentucky landscape is evident in the way the local architecture keeps low to the ground, acknowledging the limestone shelves that define the foundation of every structure. While the Falls of the Ohio remains a significant geological marker seven miles away, the residents here look instead to the immediate, intimate rhythms of their own fields and the historical gravity of the land. It is a place where the passage of time is measured not by grand events, but by the seasonal shifts in the vegetation and the steady, unbothered flow of the water, creating a social climate defined by a cautious, neighborly independence.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Goose Creek/Lime Kiln (Conservation Area) — 1.6 mi, 311° NW
  • The Kentucky Soldiers Home (Monument) — 1.9 mi, 344° N
  • Lentz's Pond (Conservation Area) — 2.0 mi, 333° NW
  • Six Mile Island State Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 2.2 mi, 299° NW
  • Putney Pond and Woodlands (Local Park) — 2.5 mi, 008° N
  • Wolf Pen Branch Mill (Historic Ruins) — 2.5 mi, 042° NE
  • Woodlawn Race Course (Monument) — 2.6 mi, 186° S
  • War Memorial (Monument) — 2.8 mi, 325° NW
  • Harrods Creek Park (Local Park) — 2.9 mi, 027° NE
  • E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park (State Park) — 3.2 mi, 111° E
  • Charlestown State Park (State Park) — 4.4 mi, 347° N
  • WaterWorks Museum (Museum) — 4.4 mi, 251° W
  • Village 8 (Cinema) — 4.7 mi, 186° S
  • Walden theater (Theatre) — 5.1 mi, 228° SW
  • Party Center (Attraction) — 5.2 mi, 139° SE
  • Gallapalooza Horse Statue (Public Artwork) — 5.2 mi, 089° E
  • Bingham Park (Attraction) — 5.4 mi, 238° SW
  • Market Street line sign (Attraction) — 5.7 mi, 236° SW
  • Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind (Museum) — 5.8 mi, 238° SW
  • Heigold House Facade (Historic Ruins) — 6.0 mi, 245° SW
  • Jeffersonville Overlook (Attraction) — 6.6 mi, 250° W
  • River Stage and Amphitheater (Theatre) — 6.6 mi, 250° W
  • Riverview Overlook (Viewpoint) — 6.6 mi, 356° N
  • Vintage Fire Museum (Museum) — 6.7 mi, 255° W
  • Clark County Museum (Museum) — 6.7 mi, 255° W
  • Fourteen Mile Creek Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 8.4 mi, 002° N
  • Hoosier National Forest (National Forest) — 38.1 mi, 282° W · 204k acres

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About This Hills and Dales Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hills and Dales, Kentucky. Coordinates: 38.301181, -85.624684. 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 Hills and Dales includes the ZIP code (40241), telephone area code (502), county seat of Jefferson County (Louisville), and school district assignment (Jefferson 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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.