Explore Lakeview Heights, 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 Lakeview Heights, 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 Lakeview Heights.
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 | Lakeview Heights |
| State | Kentucky (KY) |
| County | Rowan County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 38.15147 |
| Longitude | -83.504353 |
| Population | 277 |
| Density | 758.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 40351 |
| Area Code | 502 |
| County Seat | Morehead |
| School District | Rowan County School District |
Lakeview Heights emerges from the landscape as a quiet confluence of limestone ridges and deep-shadowed hollows where the air carries the cool, damp weight of the nearby Appalachian Mountains. It lies 38.4 miles east-northeast of Winchester, KY (from Winchester, KY: bearing 73°T), and is situated 4.5 miles west-southwest of Morehead. Triplett Creek winds through the low ground, its water cutting a persistent path that defines the local geography and dictates the way the morning mist clings to the valley floor. To the west, the terrain rises into the protected woodlands of the Daniel Boone National Forest, a vast expanse of oak and hickory that serves as a permanent, silent guardian to the edge of the residential sprawl. The light here at dusk possesses a peculiar, bruised quality, filtering through the dense canopy to cast long, slate-colored shadows across the uneven ground of Cincinnati Hollow.
Lakeview Heights maintains a modest economy that relies on the rhythm of the seasons and a long-standing connection to the timber and agricultural industries of the region. Residents often find their way to the Big Limestone Trail, a rugged track that snakes through the dense undergrowth and offers a vantage point over the stillness of Cave Run Lake, where the water remains undisturbed by the frantic pace of the outside world. The legacy of the area is tied to the labor of those who cleared the land and worked the timber, leaving behind a culture that values endurance over flash. Even now, the daily life in Lakeview Heights feels calibrated to the slow shift of the sun across the ridges, a place where the modern world is present but perpetually kept at a respectful distance by the surrounding forest.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lakeview Heights, Kentucky. Coordinates: 38.15147, -83.504353. 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 Lakeview Heights includes the ZIP code (40351), telephone area code (502), county seat of Rowan County (Morehead), and school district assignment (Rowan 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. |