Carrsville Kentucky Map

About Carrsville, Kentucky

Carrsville is a locality in Livingston County, Kentucky, United States. It is a small community with a population of 48. The population density is 285.1 people per km². Carrsville is located at 37.3976°N, 88.3748°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Carrsville is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 42081.

Carrsville occupies a quiet stretch of land where the earth settles into a slow, deliberate cadence defined by the persistent flow of Buck Creek. It lies 25.0 miles north-northeast of Paducah, KY (from Paducah, KY: bearing 30°T), and is situated 16.7 miles west-northwest of Marion. The landscape here favors the modest elevation of heavy, fertile soil, punctuated by the deep, shadowed depressions of Coalmine Hollow that hold the morning mist long after the sun has climbed. Beyond the immediate fields, the terrain rises toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Cottonpatch Ridge, marking the horizon with a jagged, ink-colored line. At the edge of the water, the Carrsville Riverfront Park offers a place to watch the current pull at the reeds, while a few miles inland, the still, dark waters of Mud Lake reflect the wide, open sky of the interior plains. The air carries a distinct, earthy sweetness, a scent of damp limestone and drying timber that lingers in the lungs like a memory of the seasons.

Carrsville maintains a character forged by the steady, industrious spirit of those who have worked these fields and nearby timberlands for generations. The economic rhythm remains tied to the land and the quiet commerce of the interior, often drawing laborers toward the dense, managed growth of the Kaskaskia Experimental Forest to study the patterns of the timber. Life in Carrsville proceeds without the frantic urgency of larger centers, favoring the slow accumulation of hours spent in the shade of oaks or attending to the maintenance of ancestral fences. History here is not written in grand monuments but in the silent, weathered facades of older structures and the shared knowledge of the valley floor. On quiet afternoons, the stillness is absolute, broken only by the low drone of insects or the distant, rhythmic shift of the wind moving across the tall grasses, grounding the present in a landscape that has long known the patience of the seasons.

About This Carrsville Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Carrsville, Kentucky. Coordinates: 37.397552, -88.37476. 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 Carrsville includes the ZIP code (42081), telephone area code (270, 364), county seat of Livingston County (Smithland), and school district assignment (Livingston County School District).

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.