Explore Plano, 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 Plano, 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 Plano.
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 | Plano |
| State | Kentucky (KY) |
| County | Warren County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 36.880319 |
| Longitude | -86.418325 |
| Population | 1,223 |
| Density | 457.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 42104 |
| Area Code | 270 |
| County Seat | Bowling Green |
| School District | Warren County School District |
Plano occupies a quiet expanse of Kentucky where the earth hums with the slow, deliberate pulse of limestone bedrock beneath a thin, fertile skin of soil. It lies 7.7 miles south of Bowling Green, KY (from Bowling Green, KY: bearing 170°T), and is situated 14.0 miles northeast of Franklin. The horizon remains wide and unobstructed, save for the faint, serrated shadow of Pea Ridge lingering in the far distance like a forgotten thought. Drakes Creek carves a meditative path through the landscape just a mile away, its waters reflecting the pale, shifting light of the sky, while the nearby reach of Dewey Lake gathers the afternoon heat into a glass-still surface. Within the immediate boundaries of G. H. Freeman Park, the air carries a heavy, sweet scent of drying grass and damp earth, marking the slow transition of seasons across this landlocked terrain.
Plano maintains a rhythm dictated by the cycles of agriculture and the quiet persistence of those who work the soil. The local economy remains tethered to the land, drawing sustenance from the fields that roll toward the distant, unseen reaches of Coldwater Hollow. History here is not found in grand monuments, but in the enduring lines of fence rows and the deliberate pace of daily movement, where the silence of the countryside is broken only by the mechanical hum of tractors or the sudden shift of the wind. Even as the modern world encroaches, Plano retains a distinct, grounded character, favoring the weight of tradition and the simple, unadorned beauty of an open field at dusk.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Plano, Kentucky. Coordinates: 36.880319, -86.418325. 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 Plano includes the ZIP code (42104), telephone area code (270), county seat of Warren County (Bowling Green), and school district assignment (Warren 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. |