Seneca Gardens Kentucky Map
Explore Seneca Gardens, 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 Seneca Gardens, Kentucky
How to Use This Seneca Gardens, Kentucky Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Seneca Gardens, 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 Seneca Gardens.
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 | Seneca Gardens |
| State | Kentucky (KY) |
| County | Jefferson County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 38.22896 |
| Longitude | -85.677461 |
| Population | 674 |
| Density | 1700.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 40205 |
| Area Code | 502 |
| County Seat | Louisville |
| School District | Jefferson County School District |
About Seneca Gardens, Kentucky
Seneca Gardens is a locality in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. It is a small community with a population of 674. The population density is 1700.9 people per km². Seneca Gardens is located at 38.2290°N, 85.6775°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Seneca Gardens is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 40205.Seneca Gardens displays a landscape defined by the persistent, winding currents of Middle Fork Beargrass Creek, which carve a green, low-lying corridor through the residential topography. It lies 2.5 miles west-southwest of St. Matthews, KY (from St. Matthews, KY: bearing 246°T), and is situated 4.8 miles east-southeast of Louisville. Dense canopies of hardwood trees shade the winding streets, where the light at dusk filters through the leaves in long, amber shafts that settle upon the manicured lawns. Seneca Park offers an expansive, verdant reach that invites the surrounding air to move freely across the open meadows and shaded paths. Residents often find the proximity to the cooling influence of Lakeside Pool provides a quiet respite from the summer warmth, while the distant, hazy silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains occasionally haunts the eastern horizon on the clearest of afternoons.
Seneca Gardens retains a distinct character rooted in its early twentieth-century development, maintaining an atmosphere of deliberate preservation amidst the broader sprawl of the region. The local economy and daily rhythms remain closely tied to the professional life of the metropolitan center, yet the neighborhood maintains a separate, hushed identity defined by its architecture and intentional quietude. While the Falls of the Ohio remain a powerful natural landmark a few miles away, the immediate surroundings of Seneca Gardens focus on a domestic pace, where the legacy of the land is measured in the growth of ancient oaks and the steady, seasonal flow of the nearby creek. The presence of Jefferson County Memorial Forest serves as a reminder of the vast, wooded wilderness that once dominated this part of the state, grounding the neighborhood in the limestone-rich soil that characterizes the broader regional terrain.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Seneca Park (Local Park) — 0.2 mi, 045° NE
- Cherokee Park (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 342° N
- Daniel Boone statue (Public Artwork) — 1.5 mi, 288° W
- Wyatt Center for the Arts (Theatre) — 1.6 mi, 248° W
- Norton Fine Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 1.6 mi, 247° SW
- Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 1.7 mi, 234° SW
- George Warren Fuller (Monument) — 1.8 mi, 352° N
- Charles Hermany (Monument) — 1.8 mi, 352° N
- Walden theater (Theatre) — 1.8 mi, 330° NW
- John B. Castleman Monument (Monument) — 1.9 mi, 283° W
- Gorilla Sanctuary (Attraction) — 2.0 mi, 222° SW
- Pygmy Hippo Area (Attraction) — 2.0 mi, 221° SW
- Naked Mole Rat Area (Attraction) — 2.1 mi, 221° SW
- Meerkat Area (Attraction) — 2.1 mi, 221° SW
- Petting Zoo Area (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 2.1 mi, 221° SW
- Butterfly Garden (Nature Reserve) — 2.1 mi, 226° SW
- Louisville zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 2.2 mi, 222° SW
- Colonel Sanders Museum (Museum) — 2.3 mi, 205° SW
- Village 8 (Cinema) — 2.4 mi, 083° E
- Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind (Museum) — 2.8 mi, 314° NW
- Heigold House Facade (Historic Ruins) — 3.5 mi, 313° NW
- E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park (State Park) — 7.0 mi, 056° NE
- Charlestown State Park (State Park) — 9.4 mi, 012° N
- Hoosier National Forest (National Forest) — 36.8 mi, 291° W · 204k acres
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About This Seneca Gardens Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Seneca Gardens, Kentucky. Coordinates: 38.22896, -85.677461. 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 Seneca Gardens includes the ZIP code (40205), 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. |
