Farmers Kentucky Map

About Farmers, Kentucky

Farmers is a locality in Rowan County, Kentucky, United States. It is a small community with a population of 243. The population density is 94.2 people per km². Farmers is located at 38.1429°N, 83.5460°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 40351, 40319.

Farmers emerges from the landscape where the steady, rhythmic pulse of Triplett Creek carves a path through the limestone-rich earth of the Kentucky bluegrass region. It lies 36.0 miles east-northeast of Winchester, KY (from Winchester, KY: bearing 73°T), and is situated 6.8 miles west-southwest of Morehead. The air here holds a cool, damp clarity, especially as the late afternoon light catches the limestone outcrops and turns the limestone dust to a pale, bone-colored shimmer. To the east, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains serves as a quiet sentinel over the horizon, while the terrain immediately surrounding Farmers is defined by the heavy, verdant silence of the Daniel Boone National Forest. The land slopes toward the nearby depressions of Hog Hollow, where the shadows grow long and thick beneath the canopy, and the proximity of Cave Run Lake ensures that the soil remains deep and dark, drinking in the seasonal rains that feed the low-lying pastures.

Farmers maintains a quiet persistence, its history tethered to the slow turn of agricultural cycles and the deliberate pace of those who work the stubborn, fertile soil. The local economy finds its roots in the steady cultivation of the land, echoing a time when the transit of goods and the labor of the field dictated the movement of the day. Travelers seeking a connection to the wilder stretches of the state often find themselves crossing the nearby Sheltowee Trace, a path that links the modern traveler to the rugged, forested expanse of the region. Life in Farmers moves in harmony with the changing seasons, marked by the smell of woodsmoke in the autumn and the sudden, vibrant green of spring, a place where the quiet industry of the people remains as enduring as the limestone bedrock upon which the locality is built.

About This Farmers Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Farmers, Kentucky. Coordinates: 38.142859, -83.546021. 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 Farmers includes the ZIP code (40351, 40319), telephone area code (502), county seat of Rowan County (Morehead), and school district assignment (Rowan 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.