Meade County, Kentucky Map
Explore Meade County, Kentucky with this interactive street and satellite map. Browse all 4 cities and towns in Meade County below.
Interactive Map of Meade County, Kentucky
| County | Meade |
| State | Kentucky (KY) |
| County Seat | Brandenburg |
| Country | United States of America |
| Latitude | 37.955465 |
| Longitude | -86.114247 |
| Cities & Towns | 4 |
| Area Codes | 502 |
About Meade County, Kentucky
Meade County occupies a limestone shelf that tilts toward the Ohio River, creating a landscape defined by deep ravines and subterranean drainage. The terrain is marked by sinkholes and rocky outcrops, where the earth seems to breathe through the karst, swallowing rain into hidden galleries beneath the soil. To the north, the river acts as a broad, silver artery, its current reflecting the heavy, humid light of late summer afternoons when the air turns thick enough to hold the scent of damp clay and curing tobacco. This geography separates the high, dry ridges from the fertile bottoms, forcing the land to organize itself into a series of jagged, vertical shifts that defy the uniformity of the flatter plains further west.
Meade County emerged as a distinct entity in the early nineteenth century, fashioned from portions of surrounding territories to serve a population of settlers who moved across the river or down from the eastern mountains. These families brought with them a hard-won self-sufficiency, carving their lives out of forests that had long been hunting grounds. The county seat was established at a point of high ground overlooking the water, chosen for its strategic vantage and its proximity to the river trade. Over time, the center of governance became a quiet focal point where the architecture of the nineteenth century persists in red brick and limestone foundations, keeping watch over streets that hold the long shadows of those who first surveyed the timber and the water.
Life here remains tethered to the cycles of the earth and the heavy industry that occupies the riverfront, creating a strange friction between agrarian solitude and the hum of manufacturing. Residents move through days dictated by the shift change and the turning of the seasons, maintaining a character that is neither fully mountain nor entirely lowland, but a distinct blend of both. Landmarks are found in the heavy, industrial steel of the river crossings and the quiet, overgrown spaces where the limestone cliffs drop abruptly toward the water. In the evening, when the sun catches the industrial haze and turns it to a bruised violet, the county reveals its true temper: a place that does not ask for attention, but simply persists, grounded in the gray stone and the slow, relentless movement of the river.
Cities and Towns in Meade County
About This Meade County Map Page
This page provides an interactive map of Meade County, Kentucky alongside links to detailed street maps for 4 cities and towns. The county seat is Brandenburg. Each city and town map page includes live weather, local news and precise GPS coordinates.
The Search Maps button below the county map opens USGS topographic maps and aerial imagery as base layers, with a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a single-fix GPS readout giving your USNG grid reference and latitude and longitude.
Location data is sourced from the USGS GNIS database and verified by coordinates, not name matching alone.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | USGS GNIS database; coordinates matched to 2020 US Census records |
