Hodgenville Kentucky Map

About Hodgenville, Kentucky

Hodgenville is a locality in Larue County, Kentucky, United States. It has a population of approximately 3,235. The population density is 586.7 people per km². Hodgenville is located at 37.5740°N, 85.7400°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Hodgenville is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 42748.

Hodgenville emerges from the limestone-heavy soil of the region, defined by the quiet persistence of the North Fork Nolin River as it carves a path through the landscape. It lies 10.5 miles southeast of Elizabethtown, KY (from Elizabethtown, KY: bearing 142°T), and is situated 17.5 miles southeast of Rineyville. The air here holds a particular weight, smelling of damp earth and coming rain, while the light at dusk settles over the fields in long, amber strips that catch the edges of the barns. While the distant, hazy blue silhouettes of the Appalachian Mountains wait 129 miles to the east, the immediate terrain is defined by low, rhythmic swells of pasture and thin, persistent woodland. Residents find their quietude at Creek Front Park, where the land meets the water in an unadorned, utilitarian grace that keeps the pace of the afternoon grounded in the simple mechanics of growth and season.

History exerts a gravitational pull on Hodgenville, anchoring the local identity to the fundamental beginnings of a president born into these modest, hard-scrabble fields. The economy remains tethered to the cycles of agriculture and the steady, slow-turning machinery of regional commerce, far removed from the frantic pulse of larger metropolitan centers. People travel a few miles to the still, reflective surface of Sportsman Lake when they require a different kind of silence, or look toward the shadows of Howard Hollow to understand the isolation that once shaped the early homesteaders. Life here moves with the deliberate, careful focus of a place that knows its own weight, favoring the sturdy continuity of a long-established rural existence over the fleeting demands of the modern world.

About This Hodgenville Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hodgenville, Kentucky. Coordinates: 37.57395, -85.739961. 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 Hodgenville includes the ZIP code (42748), telephone area code (270), county seat of Larue County (Hodgenville), and school district assignment (Larue 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.