Flat Lick Kentucky Map

About Flat Lick, Kentucky

Flat Lick is a locality in Knox County, Kentucky, United States. It is a small community with a population of 850. The population density is 68.6 people per km². Flat Lick is located at 36.8290°N, 83.7702°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 40935.

Flat Lick emerges from the landscape where the quiet, persistent pulse of Sandy Branch carves a path through the limestone-rich soil. It lies 49.5 miles east-southeast of Somerset, KY (from Somerset, KY: bearing 111°T), and is situated 7.1 miles east-southeast of Barbourville. Beyond the immediate basin, the terrain lifts toward the distant, hazy silhouette of the Cumberland Mountains, their ridgelines serrated against the bruised purple of a late autumn dusk. Shallow depressions collect the morning mist, while the nearby Pogue Hollow serves as a cool, shaded corridor where the air remains heavy with the scent of damp earth and decaying leaves. The topography here is a deliberate layering of elevation, a series of slopes that drain into the low-lying basin, defining the physical boundary of the land with a singular, unyielding focus.

Flat Lick carries the quiet weight of Appalachian history, where the rhythms of the earth have long dictated the pace of the people who call this place home. The economy, once tethered to the extraction of resources from beneath the soil, now moves with the slow, steady hum of those who work the land and the nearby Kentucky Ridge Forest Wildlife Management Area. Traditions persist in the way the light catches the gable ends of older structures, reflecting a lineage of survival that predates the modern convenience of the highway. While the Kentucky Ridge State Forest stands as a distant, verdant sentinel to the north, the local life remains anchored to the immediate, tangible reality of the hollows and the steady, narrow flow of the water that defines this geography.

About This Flat Lick Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Flat Lick, Kentucky. Coordinates: 36.828976, -83.770198. 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 Flat Lick includes the ZIP code (40935), telephone area code (606), county seat of Knox County (Barbourville), and school district assignment (Knox 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.