New Haven Kentucky Map
Explore New Haven, 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 New Haven, Kentucky
How to Use This New Haven, Kentucky Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for New Haven, 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 New Haven.
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 | New Haven |
| State | Kentucky (KY) |
| County | Nelson County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 37.65784 |
| Longitude | -85.591073 |
| Population | 798 |
| Density | 533.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 40051 |
| Area Code | 502 |
| County Seat | Bardstown |
| School District | Nelson County School District |
About New Haven, Kentucky
New Haven is a locality in Nelson County, Kentucky, United States. It is a small community with a population of 798. The population density is 533.1 people per km². New Haven is located at 37.6578°N, 85.5911°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. New Haven is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 40051.New Haven occupies a quiet basin where the slow, deliberate current of the Rolling Fork defines the western edge of the local landscape. It lies 12.5 miles south-southwest of Bardstown, KY (from Bardstown, KY: bearing 213°T), and is situated 10.0 miles northeast of Hodgenville. The earth here holds a heavy, dark moisture that sustains the persistent green of the lowland pastures, while the horizon is marked by the distant, hazy blue silhouettes of the Appalachian Mountains. At Optimist Park, the ground settles into a flat, unassuming expanse, a place where the light at dusk turns a bruised, metallic gold, catching the edges of the limestone outcroppings that jut through the topsoil like the bleached bones of a forgotten geography. Beyond the immediate fields, the terrain rises into the thicker, tangled canopy of the Knobs State Forest and Wildlife Management Area, creating a contrast between the open, working land and the shadowed, silent interior of the woods.
New Haven persists as a center of gravity for the surrounding agricultural life, anchored by the rhythmic passage of rail and the enduring legacy of the barrel-aged spirits that define this region’s industry. History remains visible in the sturdy, weathered architecture that lines the thoroughfares, reflecting a time when the transit of goods and the labor of the distillery floor dictated the daily tempo. Four miles away, the topographical dip of Big Lick Hollow serves as a reminder of the subtle, ancient shifts that shaped the settlement, a place where the pace of life is dictated by the seasonal requirements of the soil and the quietude of the land. While the allure of Melody Lake offers a respite for those seeking the stillness of deeper water, the identity of New Haven remains tethered to the iron tracks and the fertile, limestone-rich plains that have supported its people for generations.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Kentucky Railway Museum (Museum) — 0.1 mi, 240° SW
- Optimist Park (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 158° S
- Saint Joseph Statue (Public Artwork) — 3.3 mi, 085° E
- Thompson Creek Glades State Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 4.1 mi, 280° W
- Rolling Fork Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 6.8 mi, 164° S
- Larue County Environmental Center (Local Park) — 8.4 mi, 227° SW
- Abraham Lincoln Statue (Monument) — 10.0 mi, 235° SW
- Willett Distillery (Attraction) — 11.3 mi, 039° NE
- Bourbon Heritage Center (Attraction) — 11.6 mi, 036° NE
- My Old Kentucky Home State Park (State Park) — 11.8 mi, 037° NE
- Abraham Lincoln Birth Cabin (Attraction) — 11.9 mi, 223° SW
- Site of the Boundary Oak (Attraction) — 11.9 mi, 222° SW
- Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History/Bardstown Historical Museum (Museum) — 12.5 mi, 032° NE
- Bardstown Civil War Museum (Museum) — 12.7 mi, 034° NE
- Confederate Monument of Bardstown (Monument) — 13.5 mi, 032° NE
- The Cannonball (Monument) — 14.8 mi, 279° W
- Lincoln Homestead State Park (State Park) — 21.1 mi, 071° E
- Fort Duffield (Historic Castle / Fort) — 30.1 mi, 321° NW
- Mammoth Cave National Park (National Park) — 36.1 mi, 221° SW · 51k acres
- Hoosier National Forest (National Forest) — 54.8 mi, 308° NW · 204k acres
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About This New Haven Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of New Haven, Kentucky. Coordinates: 37.65784, -85.591073. 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 New Haven includes the ZIP code (40051), telephone area code (502), county seat of Nelson County (Bardstown), and school district assignment (Nelson 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. |
