Glencoe Kentucky Map

About Glencoe, Kentucky

Glencoe is a locality in Gallatin County, Kentucky, United States. It is a small community with a population of 350. The population density is 76.6 people per km². Glencoe is located at 38.7250°N, 84.8233°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Glencoe is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 41046.

Glencoe emerges from the landscape as a quiet collection of slopes and hollows where the earth holds the deep, cool scent of limestone and damp soil. It lies 21.1 miles south-southwest of Oakbrook, KY (from Oakbrook, KY: bearing 201°T), and is situated 6.4 miles southeast of Warsaw. The horizon remains unbroken by the jagged peaks of the Appalachian Mountains, which remain a distant, hazy memory far to the east, leaving the sky over Glencoe wide and unencumbered. Eagle Creek carves a singular, winding path through the vegetation nearby, its movement providing a steady, low-frequency hum that defines the local atmosphere. In the late afternoon, the light here thickens, turning the pastures a bruised, heavy gold that clings to the fences and the low-hanging branches of hardwood trees.

Agriculture forms the spine of life in Glencoe, where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pace of the day more effectively than any clock. The legacy of the land is measured in the persistence of small-scale farming, a tradition that persists even as the modern world pushes against the edges of the county. Residents occasionally travel toward Egypt Bottom to work the fields or toward Sparta City Park for a quiet respite in the shade, though the local character remains stubbornly rooted in the self-reliance of the Upper South. While Boone Lake waits fourteen miles away for those seeking the stillness of deeper water, the people of Glencoe tend to find their own sense of permanence in the simple, repetitive labor of the soil and the quiet endurance of the regional landscape.

About This Glencoe Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Glencoe, Kentucky. Coordinates: 38.72499, -84.823276. 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 Glencoe includes the ZIP code (41046), telephone area code (859), county seat of Gallatin County (Warsaw), and school district assignment (Gallatin 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.