Explore Rolling Hills, 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 Rolling Hills, 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 Rolling Hills.
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 | Rolling Hills |
| State | Kentucky (KY) |
| County | Jefferson County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 38.28257 |
| Longitude | -85.574405 |
| Population | 934 |
| Density | 1908.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 40242 |
| Area Code | 502 |
| County Seat | Louisville |
| School District | Jefferson County School District |
Rolling Hills emerges from the verdant, limestone-rich basin of Kentucky where the earth rises and falls in measured, rhythmic swells. It lies 2.3 miles northeast of Lyndon, KY (from Lyndon, KY: bearing 40°T), and is situated 8.8 miles east of Jeffersonville. Goose Creek carves a singular, winding path through the landscape, its waters reflecting the shifting hues of a sky that hangs heavy and wide over the pastures. The air here holds a distinct stillness, particularly at dusk, when the long shadows of late afternoon stretch across the grass and the light turns the color of pale honey. Beyond the immediate terrain, the distant Appalachian Mountains provide a faint, jagged silhouette against the eastern horizon, grounding the visual field in a sense of ancient, geological permanence. Residents find a quiet connection to the land at Hounz Lane, a local park that serves as a necessary threshold between the domestic architecture of the neighborhood and the wilder, unmanicured thickets that define the regional ecology.
Rolling Hills functions as a secluded residential enclave, maintaining a character shaped by the steady, deliberate pace of the Upper-South. While the economy remains largely tied to the broader professional rhythms of the region, the local identity is defined by the preservation of open space and a respect for the agrarian legacy that once dominated these tracts of bluegrass. History in Rolling Hills is marked not by grand monuments, but by the slow accumulation of generations who have favored the privacy of these wooded residential pockets over the density of urban centers. Though the bustle of commerce exists elsewhere, life here is measured by the seasonal transition of the forest canopy and the occasional quiet crossing of the creek. Even with the proximity of the Jefferson County Memorial Forest providing a vast, protected reach of timber and trail, the daily experience of Rolling Hills remains anchored in the simple, private grace of a porch view and the enduring quiet of the Kentucky plains.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Rolling Hills, Kentucky. Coordinates: 38.28257, -85.574405. 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 Rolling Hills includes the ZIP code (40242), 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 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. |