Ryland Heights Kentucky Map
Explore Ryland 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.
Interactive Map of Ryland Heights, Kentucky
How to Use This Ryland Heights, Kentucky Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Ryland 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 Ryland 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 | Ryland Heights |
| State | Kentucky (KY) |
| County | Kenton County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 38.980272 |
| Longitude | -84.432207 |
| Population | 922 |
| Density | 67.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 41015 |
| Area Code | 859 |
| County Seat | Covington |
| School District | Kenton County School District |
About Ryland Heights, Kentucky
Ryland Heights is a locality in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States. It is a small community with a population of 922. The population density is 67.9 people per km². Ryland Heights is located at 38.9803°N, 84.4322°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Ryland Heights is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 41015.Ryland Heights asserts itself across a landscape defined by the deliberate, stubborn rise of limestone ridges and the deep, verdant hollows that characterize this corner of the state. It lies 4.0 miles west of Alexandria, KY (from Alexandria, KY: bearing 268°T), and is situated 9.1 miles south-southeast of Covington. The earth here holds a heavy, dark quality, thick with the damp perfume of decaying leaves and the mineral tang of the bedrock that shapes the local contours. A mile to the east, the Licking River cuts a slow, serpentine path through the terrain, its waters reflecting the heavy, bruised purples of a Kentucky dusk. While the Appalachian Mountains remain a distant, hazy suggestion on the far horizon, the immediate topography is dominated by the intimate, sheltered spaces of the interior, where the light in late autumn turns the foliage into a brittle, burnt-gold canopy that seems to catch and hold the very heat of the fading day.
Ryland Heights maintains a quiet, self-contained autonomy that persists despite the encroaching pace of modern industry, drawing its character from a long history of agrarian tradition and the slow, deliberate work of those who cultivate the soil. Residents often find their way to Locust Pike Park for a moment of stillness, finding the open spaces a reprieve from the dense, tangled thickets that otherwise claim the land. The economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the surrounding region, where the quiet legacy of the landscape—far removed from the expansive basin of Wilmington Bottom—is marked by the steady, unpretentious labor of its people. Even the proximity to the Old Alexandria Reservoir, five miles distant, serves as a reminder of the quiet, contained nature of a geography that favors the shade of the ridge and the slow, steady movement of the inland waterways over the restlessness of the wider world.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Hawthorne Crossing Stream Restoration Site (State Conservation Area) — 0.6 mi, 083° E
- Bowman Field (Local Park) — 1.5 mi, 298° NW
- Locust Pike Park (Local Park) — 1.7 mi, 231° SW
- Campbell County Historical and Genealogical Society Museum (Museum) — 2.8 mi, 120° SE
- St. Anne's Stream Restoration Site (State Conservation Area) — 4.6 mi, 038° NE
- Blessed Virgin Mary (Public Artwork) — 5.1 mi, 048° NE
- High Water Marker (Monument) — 5.1 mi, 005° N
- Bill Cappel Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 5.3 mi, 319° NW
- Ohio River Overlook (Viewpoint) — 5.6 mi, 034° NE
- California Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 5.6 mi, 008° N
- Beverly Hills Supper Club Memorial (Monument) — 6.0 mi, 346° N
- California Woods (Local Conservation Area) — 6.4 mi, 006° N
- G.A.P.P. Peace Pole (Monument) — 7.4 mi, 027° NE
- Purple Paisley, Local Artisan Shop (Gallery) — 8.2 mi, 330° NW
- Cincinnati Aviation Heritage Society Museum (Museum) — 8.5 mi, 001° N
- Batthery Bates (Historic Ruins) — 8.8 mi, 317° NW
- Irish Heritage Center of Cincinnati (Museum) — 9.0 mi, 359° N
- Ferris Site (Historic Ruins) — 9.1 mi, 107° E
- The Andrew J Brady Music Center (Theatre) — 9.1 mi, 331° NW
- Schott Amphitheater (Theatre) — 9.1 mi, 338° N
- Contemporary Arts Center (Gallery) — 9.5 mi, 333° NW
- Weston Art Gallery (Gallery) — 9.5 mi, 333° NW
- ArtsWave (Arts Centre) — 9.8 mi, 334° NW
- American Legacy Tours (Attraction) — 10.0 mi, 334° NW
- Rosebrook Art Center (Arts Centre) — 10.4 mi, 279° W
- East Fork State Park (State Park) — 14.4 mi, 081° E
- Big Bone Lick State Historic Site (State Park) — 17.7 mi, 248° W
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About This Ryland Heights Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Ryland Heights, Kentucky. Coordinates: 38.980272, -84.432207. 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 Ryland Heights includes the ZIP code (41015), telephone area code (859), county seat of Kenton County (Covington), and school district assignment (Kenton 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. |
