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Tolu Kentucky Map

Explore Tolu, 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 Tolu, Kentucky

How to Use This Tolu, Kentucky Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Tolu, 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 Tolu.

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	Tolu
State	Kentucky (KY)
County	Crittenden County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	37.433107
Longitude	-88.245311
Population	81
Density	90.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	42064
Area Code	270, 364
County Seat	Marion
School District	Crittenden County School District

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About Tolu, Kentucky

Tolu is a locality in Crittenden County, Kentucky, United States. It is a small community with a population of 81. The population density is 90.1 people per km². Tolu is located at 37.4331°N, 88.2453°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 42064.

Tolu occupies a quiet stretch of land defined by the persistent, rhythmic presence of the Caney Fork, which carves a path through the earth just outside the settlement. It lies 31.1 miles northeast of Paducah, KY (from Paducah, KY: bearing 39°T), and is situated 11.4 miles northwest of Marion. The landscape here is defined by deep, shadowed earth and the encroaching wildness of the Shawnee National Forest, which begins its dense canopy only two miles away. Low, fertile ridges rise and fall like the slow breathing of a sleeping giant, their slopes thick with timber that turns a bruised, rusted orange in the cooling air of autumn. A traveler might notice how the light catches the moisture rising off the soil at dawn, turning the fields into a heavy, silvered expanse that muffles the sound of the wind, grounding the world in a stillness that feels older than the roads themselves.

Tolu retains the character of a place that has long measured its wealth in the yield of the soil and the endurance of its fences. While the economy has shifted from the labor of early extraction to the quieter, more solitary pursuits of modern agriculture, the memory of the land remains etched in the local rhythm. History here is not found in grand monuments, but in the way the local folk navigate the terrain toward Holbrook Hollow or mark the passing of seasons by the growth cycles in the nearby fields. Life in Tolu moves with the steady, unadorned pace of a pendulum, indifferent to the hurried noise of the wider world, favoring instead the simple, honest weight of a day’s work under an open Kentucky sky.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Shawnee National Forest (National Forest) — 1.8 mi, 020° N · 274k acres
Shawnee Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 4.1 mi, 304° NW · 7,712 acres
Cave-In-Rock State Park (State Park) — 5.1 mi, 063° NE
Whoopie Cat Mountain Research Natural Area (Research Natural Area) — 5.4 mi, 308° NW
Fluorspar Miners Memorial (Monument) — 5.5 mi, 260° W
North Central Experiment Station Experimental Forest (Recreation Easement) — 5.9 mi, 322° NW
Barker Bluff Research Natural Area (Research Natural Area) — 6.4 mi, 054° NE
Big Rivers Wildlife Management Area and State Forest (State Conservation Area) — 9.9 mi, 073° E
University Of Illinois Experimental Demonstration Area Experimental Research Area (Recreation Easement) — 11.0 mi, 334° NW
Livingston County Wildlife Management Area and State Nature Preserve (Newman's Bluff SNP) (State Conservation Area) — 11.1 mi, 233° SW
Pounds Hollow Recreation Area (Nature Reserve) — 11.9 mi, 351° N
Hurricane Bluff (Viewpoint) — 12.5 mi, 340° N
Garden Of The Gods Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 12.7 mi, 327° NW · 3,978 acres
War Bluff Valley Sanctuary (Nature Reserve) — 13.7 mi, 274° W
Lusk Creek Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 14.6 mi, 289° W · 6,632 acres
Herod Cave (Attraction) — 15.0 mi, 314° NW
Old Wall (Historic Ruins) — 17.1 mi, 290° W
Fredonia Valley Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 18.7 mi, 147° SE
Cheif Tecumseh Statue (Public Artwork) — 19.6 mi, 336° NW
CCC Tree Planting (Monument) — 23.2 mi, 267° W
Carrier Mills Archaeological District (Historic Ruins) — 25.6 mi, 307° NW
Harrisburg Remodeling (Attraction) — 26.4 mi, 322° NW
Harrisburg Daily Register (Attraction) — 26.5 mi, 323° NW
Graf Ink Printing (Attraction) — 26.5 mi, 322° NW
Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 27.9 mi, 164° S · 171k acres
Caldwell County Fine Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 28.0 mi, 137° SE
Adsmore Museum (Museum) — 30.0 mi, 138° SE
Market House Museum (Museum) — 30.7 mi, 219° SW
Bricolage Art Collective (Gallery) — 30.7 mi, 219° SW
Noble Park Amphitheater (Theatre) — 32.3 mi, 222° SW

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